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Half Anna
| Issuer | Princely state of Indore |
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| Year | 1813 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse bears the Hijri date 1228 inscribed in large Eastern Arabic numerals (١٢٢٨) occupying the central field, rendered in a bold, somewhat crude hammered style typical of early nineteenth-century Indore coinage. The numerals are enclosed within a simple rectilinear frame or cartouche, with decorative dots or pellets visible above the inscription near the upper rim. The overall execution is characteristic of provincial Indian copper coinage of the period, with an irregular flan and shallow, uneven strike. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a stylised branch or plant motif bearing three leaves rising from a central stem, centrally positioned within the field and enclosed by a plain linear border near the rim. The botanical device is rendered in a bold, schematic manner consistent with the hammered coinage tradition of the Holkar rulers of Indore. The flan shows characteristic irregular edges and surface porosity associated with hand-struck copper issues of this princely state. |
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Indore's copper coinage of this period was struck under Malhar Rao II, whose reign was marked by the Holkar dynasty's fraught relationship with the British East India Company following the Second Anglo-Maratha War of 1803–05. The state retained nominal minting rights, but British political pressure on the Maratha chiefs steadily tightened through the 1810s, making autonomous issues like this increasingly short-lived as a practical matter.
KM#91 is among the scarcer Indore copper types — Holkar-era copper circulated hard in local bazaar trade and survivors with readable details are not common.