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Travancore Sirkar rupee: research record

Evidence coverage: 1861–1950. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.

This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.

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Travancore Sirkar rupee

CUR-V26-TRAVANCORE-SIRKAR · Research draft

Local Travancore government-account rupee with fanam/cash subdivisions, distinct from circulating Britishrupee; fullrupee coin unnecessary.

One scoped currency identity. Changes to subdivisions, scale, standard, instruments or issuers do not by themselves create children. A distinct account unit can remain a successor.
Dated observations: 1861–1950; this does not establish the entire lifetime.

Parents / predecessors

No distinct predecessor currency is established in the loaded view.

Children / successors

No distinct successor currency is established in the loaded view.

Latest research

Historical account research

Sirkar accounts were kept in rupees, fanams and cash; Travancore fanam was then nominal. Grouping the earlier and later local account observations is qualified.

Sources and qualifications →
Historical account research

Sirkarrupee described as monetary unit with quarter/seventh subdivisions despite never having been minted as a fullrupee. Grouping the earlier and later local account observations is qualified.

Sources and qualifications →
Historical account research

Travancore coins ceased legal tender inApril1950. The inspected source does not establish the account-unit conversion or its exact rate.

Sources and qualifications →

Account-unit observations

Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.

1861qualified

Sirkar accounts were kept in rupees, fanams and cash; Travancore fanam was then nominal. Grouping the earlier and later local account observations is qualified.

C1390
1933qualified

Sirkarrupee described as monetary unit with quarter/seventh subdivisions despite never having been minted as a fullrupee. Grouping the earlier and later local account observations is qualified.

C1391
1950supported

Travancore coins ceased legal tender inApril1950. The inspected source does not establish the account-unit conversion or its exact rate.

C1515
Evidence & research notes 3 claims

Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan. Link1861to1933within one regional profile is qualified pending1913proclamation review.1913reported establishment cannot mean firstexistence, since1861accounts predateit. No separate fanam node merely from denomination. Termination and INRreplacement require further evidence.

Inference C1390

Sirkar accounts were kept in rupees, fanams and cash; Travancore fanam was then nominal. Grouping the earlier and later local account observations is qualified.

Charles Allen Lawson · Charles Allen Lawson, British and Native Cochin, secondedition 1861 Citation S698 · Open source ↗

printed146–147

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

OCR fractions not used.

Inference C1391

Sirkarrupee described as monetary unit with quarter/seventh subdivisions despite never having been minted as a fullrupee. Grouping the earlier and later local account observations is qualified.

United States Department of Commerce · Monetary Use of Silver in 1933 Citation S541 · Open source ↗

printed119

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1515

Travancore coins ceased legal tender inApril1950. The inspected source does not establish the account-unit conversion or its exact rate.

A. Sreedhara Menon · A Survey of Kerala History Citation S847 · Open source ↗

Coins subsection final paragraph

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Full coin subsection inspected in book transcription.

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