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Pagoda - Tipu Sultan Patan mint
| Issuer | Mysore, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1786-1793 |
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| Weight | 3.42 g |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse lettering | Zarb Patan RY 7 |
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Tipu Sultan introduced a complete overhaul of the Mysore coinage system after consolidating power following his father Hyder Ali's death in 1782, replacing the inherited Hindu-inflected monetary vocabulary with a new Islamic calendar and Arabic nomenclature. The pagoda denomination — a term so entrenched in south Indian commercial practice that even the East India Company used it as a unit of account — survived the reform in name only, retained purely because the merchant community would accept nothing else.
Patan was one of several subordinate mints operating under delegated authority during this period. Output attribution between Tipu's mints remains contested in the literature, and KM#129a encompasses genuine die variation.