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1 Cash
| Issuer | East India Company |
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| Currency | Rupee (1690-1801) |
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| Reverse lettering | CC OR GC |
| Edge | Plain |
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| Additional information |
The East India Company's smallest copper denominations were minted primarily at the Madras Presidency, where the cash — derived from the Tamil *kāsu* — had circulated as a unit of account for centuries before the Company standardized it. KM#1 designates the earliest catalogued type in the series, issued as the Company worked to displace a chaotic patchwork of local coinage that varied by town, ruler, and even individual merchant house.