Kutch kori — the longest-struck Indian silver

The Kutch kori, a silver coinage struck at Bhuj from the 16th century until 1947 — one of the longest continuous Indian silver series. The Jadeja Rao rulers kept the Mughal-style trident-and-dagger (katar) emblem on the obverse and a bilingual Persian-Gujarati legend on the reverse. Under the paramountcy the kori was still legal tender in Kutch alongside the British Indian rupee; the half-kori (dhingla), five-kori and tri-kori rounded out the system. The 1947 accession replaced it with the rupee, but the mint building at Bhuj survives.