{"title":"Princely State of Wadhwan","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"wadhwan-state-1888-half-pice-217","title":"Wadhwan State 1888 Half Pice","description":"\u003cp\u003eStep into the world of Gujarat's princely heritage with the 1888 Wadhwan State Half Pice coin, a copper issue minted under the Jhala dynasty rulers of the Wadhwan princely state in the Saurashtra region. Despite its modest denomination, the Half Pice was a vital part of everyday commerce in the small but historically significant kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe coin, struck in copper, carries the local script and traditional motifs that distinguished princely state issues from the broader British Indian coinage of the era. Its design speaks to the cultural identity and sovereignty exercised by Wadhwan within the broader framework of late nineteenth-century India, where each princely state maintained its own monetary traditions even as the colonial economy expanded around them.\u003cbr\u003e\nSet into an Anka handcrafted wooden watch, this small copper coin becomes a wearable record of a vanished political world. Oak wood's natural grain frames the coin's worn surface beautifully, giving fresh life to a fragment of Saurashtra's regal history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eUSP : A rare princely state copper coin from Saurashtra, preserved as a wearable heritage piece.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anka Watches","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62883417293171,"sku":"ANKA-C-1888WAD-1\/2P-M-JHA-217","price":21000.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0944\/7941\/7715\/files\/DSC00250_natural.jpg?v=1779796911"},{"product_id":"wadhwan-state-1888-half-pice-218","title":"Wadhwan State 1888 Half Pice","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscover a variant of the rare 1888 Wadhwan State Half Pice, issued under the Jhala dynasty rulers of the small but storied princely state in Saurashtra, Gujarat. Princely state coinage of this era is highly collectible precisely because of the subtle variations across strikes, dies, and runs, each one a small puzzle for the careful collector.\u003cbr\u003e\nStruck in copper, the Half Pice circulated within Wadhwan as a denomination of everyday transactions, marking it as a coin that passed through countless hands in markets, temples, and homes across the kingdom. Its design retains the local script and motifs that signalled regional identity within a subcontinent of overlapping currencies.\u003cbr\u003e\nEmbedded into an Anka handcrafted wooden watch, this princely state variant gains a new role as a wearable artifact of cultural identity. The warmth of oak wood elevates a humble copper coin into a quiet centrepiece, where local heritage meets timeless craftsmanship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eUSP : A scarce variant of Wadhwan's princely coinage, reimagined as a wearable piece of Saurashtra heritage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anka Watches","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62883417325939,"sku":"ANKA-C-1888WAD-1\/2P-M-JHA-218","price":21000.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0944\/7941\/7715\/files\/DSC00226_natural.jpg?v=1779796842"},{"product_id":"wadhwan-state-1888-half-pice-219","title":"Wadhwan State 1888 Half Pice","description":"\u003cp\u003eOwn another example of the 1888 Wadhwan State Half Pice, a copper coin minted under the Jhala rulers of Wadhwan in the Saurashtra region of Gujarat. The persistence of regional coinage in princely states like Wadhwan even as British India consolidated economic power speaks to a deep cultural insistence on local identity and continuity.\u003cbr\u003e\nCrafted in copper, the Half Pice was a workaday denomination of late nineteenth-century princely India, used for everyday purchases in a small kingdom that retained its own monetary traditions. The coin's worn surface today carries the quiet imprint of those everyday exchanges, a tactile record of an entire economic ecosystem that no longer exists.\u003cbr\u003e\nSet into an Anka handcrafted wooden watch, this small copper coin is reborn as a wearable centrepiece, where oak wood's grounded warmth lends new dignity to a humble but historically resonant piece of Saurashtra's princely past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eUSP : A tactile witness to Saurashtra's princely past, transformed into a wearable heritage timepiece.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anka Watches","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62883417358707,"sku":"ANKA-C-1888WAD-1\/2P-M-JHA-219","price":21000.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0944\/7941\/7715\/files\/DSC00282_natural.jpg?v=1779796795"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0944\/7941\/7715\/collections\/Wadhwan.jpg?v=1779802258","url":"https:\/\/anka.watch\/collections\/princely-state-of-wadhwan.oembed","provider":"Anka Watches","version":"1.0","type":"link"}