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1 Cash
| Issuer | Carnatic, Nawabdom of the |
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| Year | 1690-1801 |
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| Value | 1 Cash (1⁄448) |
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| Reverse description | Crude hammered flan displaying a schematic fish or bow-like device in the upper field, rendered in low relief. Below, three pellets or globular devices are arranged in a triangular formation. The design is typical of the highly simplified, symbolic reverse types found on Carnatic copper cash coinage of the late 17th to early 19th century. No surrounding legend is present. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Nawabs of the Carnatic occupied a peculiar constitutional position: nominally Mughal governors, then effectively independent rulers, then increasingly puppets of the English East India Company as the 18th century wore on. Small copper cash of this type circulated throughout that deterioration, issued across a span long enough that attributing individual pieces to specific reigns is rarely possible. The series covers the tenures of at least five nawabs and the entire arc of Anglo-French rivalry in the Deccan.