Wadhwan State 1888 Half Pice

Own 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.
Crafted 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.
Set 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.

USP : A tactile witness to Saurashtra's princely past, transformed into a wearable heritage timepiece.