Coins of Rajaram Maharaj
We have completed our 7 post till now about “shivrai coins”,
now its 8th post, but till now it was in Marathi language, and
because of that many non-Marathi readers requested me to convert the blog in
english so from now we are going to post our blog in English so every coin
collector can take advantage of it.
Till now we have seen shivaji maharaja’s dotted border type
shivrai coins, sambhaji maharaja’s different types of shivrai coins and now we
are going to see coins of Rajaram maharaj, the younger son of Chatrapati
Shivaji Maharaj.
After death of Maratha chief Chatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj in
1689 Chatrapati Rajaram Maharaj came to throne, he ruled from 1689-1700 AD. Shivrai
Coin of Ch. Rajaram Maharaj is one of the most rare coin of Maratha confederacy,
may be because of his short rule his coins are became very rare and are very
hard to get at this moment, we have very few specimens of Rajaram Maharaj coins
in hand.
The shivrai’s of rajaram maharaj are made up of copper, weighs
9 grams and above. On these coins “shree/raja/ram” is written in 3 lines on
obverse, and “Chatra/Pati” On Reverse within dotted border like shivaji maharaj and sambhaji maharaj coins. but till now I have not seen a single
specimen shows the full legend on flan, with full visible legend. Sometimes we
get “shree/raja” on flan so ‘Ram’ goes out of flan and if we get “Raja/Ram” so
Shree goes out. So till now we have no specimen who shows full legend on flan. Mostly
we get these coins in square shape. With ‘raja’ and ‘Ra(m)’ on flan.
In this post I will show u one specimen of Rajaram Maharaja’s
Shivrai coin.
On this specimen we can see “(r)aja/(R)am on obverse of this coin,
and “chatra/pati” on reverse within dotted border.
in next post I will
share more specimens and their details.
next post sooon......
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