1/4 Larin - Ibrahim Nooraddeen

The larin coinage of the Maldives derives its name from Lar, a city in southern Persia, reflecting the Indian Ocean trade networks that shaped Maldivian currency for centuries before local copper issues replaced the old wire-bent silver larins. Ibrahim Nooraddeen's reign saw the introduction of fractional copper denominations as the archipelago modernized its monetary system under growing British influence — the Maldives had been a British protectorate since 1887, and this 1883 issue precedes that formalization by just four years.

KM#37 is among the scarcer fractional types from this reign.