Kaserah - Hassan Shah

Hassan Shah ruled Kashmir during a period of relative cultural flourishing, but his coinage tells a more complicated administrative story. The kaserah denomination was a workhorse of local bazaar exchange, circulating heavily in valley markets where silver was too valuable for small transactions. Survivors in any decent state of preservation are genuinely scarce — not because mintages were low, but because the copper alloys used in Kashmir at this period were inconsistent in quality, making these coins prone to corrosion and surface degradation over centuries in the subcontinent's damp conditions.