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1 Cash
| Issuer | Nawab of Carnatic |
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| Year | 1690-1801 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | A stylized plant or lotus motif occupies the central field, rendered in low relief in the crude hammered style typical of South Indian cash coinage of the period. The design features a broad bifurcated stem rising to a central bud or leaf, flanked by smaller lateral elements. A rope-like or beaded border encircles the central device close to the rim. The execution is characteristic of the informal workshop production of Carnatic cash issues. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Nawabs of Carnatic occupied an increasingly uncomfortable political position throughout the eighteenth century — nominally Mughal vassals, practically dependent on British military support, and progressively stripped of real authority by the East India Company. Small copper cash issues like this one continued circulating across the Carnatic region through all of it, their production largely indifferent to the dynastic turbulence above them. The British finally abolished the Nawabship outright in 1801, annexing the state on the death of Umdat ul-Umara under circumstances the Company itself had quietly engineered.