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Dokdo - Jam Shri Satalji Vibhaji
| Issuer | Nawanagar, Princely state of |
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| Year | 1569-1593 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Hammered copper flan of irregular round form bearing a frozen Arabic legend in the name of the Mughal overlord, with the regnal date AH 978 retained as a fixed frozen date throughout the issue. The design comprises multiple horizontal bands of stylised Arabic script across the field, characteristic of the Jadeja dynasty coinage of Nawanagar struck under the suzerainty of Muzaffar Shah III of Gujarat. The legends are crudely rendered in the hammered tradition, with visible double-striking and irregular relief typical of this princely state issue. This coin was struck during the reign of Jam Shri Satalji Vibhaji (1569–1593), with the frozen date serving as a conventional, non-chronological device. |
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| Reverse description | Plain copper surface with faint traces of hammered die impression, largely undifferentiated from the flan texture. The reverse may exhibit a retrograde version of the obverse legend on certain specimens, as noted in the recorded varieties. The irregular flan edge and characteristic surface roughness are consistent with hand-hammered production methods of the Nawanagar princely state coinage of the late sixteenth century. |
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Nawanagar was founded around 1540 by Jam Raval, a Jadeja Rajput chief who broke from Cutch to establish an independent state on the Kathiawar peninsula. Vibhaji I, whose reign this issue dates to, consolidated that early territorial base during a period of persistent conflict with neighboring Rajput states and intermittent Mughal pressure on Gujarat. The copper dokdo circulated in a local economy still largely organized around pastoral trade and fishing revenues from the Gulf of Kutch.