Pagoda (coin)

The pagoda, also called the hoon,[1] 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.

The pagoda was issued by various dynasties in medieval southern India, including the Kadambas of Hangal, the Kadambas of Goa, and the Vijayanagara Empire.

[2] There were two types of pagoda coined by foreign traders: The French struck local gold "pagodas" and silver "fanams" under contract by the nawabs.

[7] 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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