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Jital - Rupa Chandra
| Issuer | Kangra, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1400-1700 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Sharada |
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| Reverse script | Sharada |
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The Kangra kingdom, nestled in the Beas River valley below the Dhauladhar range, maintained remarkable political continuity under the Katoch dynasty — one of the oldest surviving royal lineages in the Indian subcontinent — throughout the precise period this jital circulated. The Rupa Chandra type represents a local coinage tradition that persisted largely unchanged across three centuries, making precise dating within the 1400–1700 window genuinely difficult without die linkage studies.
Copper jitals of this region rarely traveled far; they were subsistence-economy coins, absorbed into local markets and temple economies.