1 Cash

The Nawabdom of Carnatic occupied an increasingly hollow political position through the eighteenth century, its rulers nominally sovereign but progressively subordinated to — and eventually dependent upon — the British East India Company. Copper cash of this type circulated in that shrinking administrative space, issued through a minting apparatus the Nawabs retained largely as a symbol of authority they no longer fully exercised.

KM#6 attribution places this among the later issues of the series, struck as the Carnatic was edging toward formal annexation, which the Company completed in 1801 following the death of Nawab Umdat ul-Umara.