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1 Jital - Hari Chandra Deva
| Issuer | Kangra, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1405-1420 |
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| Value | 1 Jital |
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| Reverse description | Central field bearing a multi-line inscription in medieval Nagari script, arranged in horizontal registers across the flan. The legend reads '(Maha)raja Sri Hari (Chandra Deva)', recording the royal title and name of the issuing ruler. The script, though worn and partially illegible due to the irregular flan, is characteristic of the epigraphic style employed by the Kangra hill kingdoms during the early 15th century. Portions of the legend are partially off-flan owing to the broad fabric of the coin. |
| Reverse script | Nagari |
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Kangra's Katoch dynasty ruled the hill tract between the Beas and Ravi rivers under persistent pressure from the Delhi Sultanate and, later, the expanding Timurid presence following Timur's 1398 sack of northern India. Hari Chandra Deva's reign falls squarely in the destabilized decades after that invasion, when Delhi's grip on the Punjab hills loosened enough to allow small Rajput kingdoms to reassert local coinage rights. The jital denomination had circulated across the subcontinent's northern hill states for centuries as the workhorse of low-value exchange.
AKJ#378 is a modestly documented type; collector references for Kangra copper remain thin compared to the silver series.