The pagoda was a unit of currency, a coin made of gold or half-gold minted by Indian dynasties as well as the British, the French and the Dutch. It was subdivided into 42 fanams. The pagoda was issued by various dynasties in medieval southern India, including the Kadambas of Hangal, the Kadambas of Goa, and the Vijayanagara Empire.[1]
The French struck local gold "pagodas" and silver "fanams" under contract by the nawabs. The silver coins of the French were called "fanon" which were equivalent to the local "fanam" and could be exchanged at the rate of 26 fanon to one gold pagoda.[5] The local Indian rulers paid their arrears to the French, English and other European East India Companies in Pagodas, such as Veerapandya Kattabomman, who almost cleared all the revenue arrears of his Panchalankurichi Palayam, leaving only a balance of 1080 Pagodas to the English East India Company before the Palayakararar Wars against the English East India Company began.
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