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Fanam - Haidar Ali
| Issuer | Mysore, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1761-1782 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | Central field bearing the Persian letter 'He' (ه), serving as a monogram for Haidar Ali, set against a granulated background of closely spaced pellets arranged in a circular pattern. The letter is rendered in a bold, cursive form and surrounded by a border of uniform beads, consistent with the hammered coinage style of Mysore under Haidar Ali. |
| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Haidar Ali seized effective control of Mysore in 1761 without ever holding the title of raja — he was a military commander who outmaneuvered the Wodeyar dynasty administratively and politically, ruling as de facto sovereign while maintaining a thin fiction of Wodeyar legitimacy. These fanams circulated during his campaigns against the Marathas, the Nizam of Hyderabad, and the British East India Company across all four Anglo-Mysore Wars' predecessor conflicts. The fanam denomination itself had roots in South Indian coinage centuries older than Mysore's regional power.