Summary

10 Cash coin issued by Maharaja Sir Mummadi Krishnaraja III Wodeyar in the Mysore Princely State, India
Hammered copper coinage struck at the Bangalore mint in 1842 AD

Obverse Description

Crude lion advancing to left, head facing; above, Sri between sun and moon; below, 1842; border of beads

Reverse Description

In Karanese (Krishna); in Persian, (struck at Mysore); in English, Io - the denomination 10

Edge Description

Plain

Significance

Although the reverse of the coin states that it was struck at the Mysore mint, that mint had been transferred to Bangalore in 1833 (Major R.P. Jackson "Coin Collecting in Mysore", BNJ, 1908, p.338). Krause, p.656, gives "Type VI Obv. Lion, date below. Struck at the Bangalore subsiduary mint"

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