1 Cash

The Nawabs of Carnatic occupied an increasingly fictitious sovereignty through the eighteenth century — formally Mughal governors, practically dependent on the British, and eventually stripped of all real authority by 1801 when the East India Company absorbed the state outright following the death of Nawab Umdat ul-Umara. These small copper cash pieces circulated through that entire deterioration, serving local bazaar trade in a region where European trading companies, Maratha raiders, and Mysorean armies had each at various points disrupted the monetary supply. The long date range reflects continuity of type rather than consistent production.