April 12, 2024
India Princely States LADAKH Ja'u Silver Coin 1842 to 1850, In Nagari with Katar
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24 India: Princely States In scans: 1 Silver Coin: hammered Silver JA'U of Exotic Ladakh Look for the dot on the blade of the vicious Katar! Km 7.2 2 gms. I take great pleasure in Hammered coins. Each is unique, struck individually by a person, not a machine. Some are quite chunky and heavy compared to modern coinage of comparable size. From Wiki: A princely state (also called native state or Indian state ) was a nominally sovereign entity of British India during the British Raj that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule , subject to a subsidiary alliance and the suzerainty or paramountcy of the British Crown .There were officially 565 princely states in India at the time of independence in 1947, but the great majority had only contracted with the Viceroy of India to provide public services and tax collection. Only 21 major ones had actual state governments, and among them only four were large ( Hyderabad State , Mysore State , Baroda State and Jammu and Kashmir State ). They acceded to one or other of the two new independent nations between 1947 and 1949. The accession process was largely peaceful except in the case of Jammu & Kashmir (which became bitterly divided between India and Pakistan) and Hyderabad . All the princes were eventually pensioned off US Buyers
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