1592963642000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-141276 1747245967790 1711380465000 1747245848565 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-141276 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141276 e0c74147-f0b1-3d65-897d-e1b4cd57a6bd 8 reference term-42993 adlib-term-42993 93884c6f-c60c-39f7-a75d-f84d65288fe0 medal reference term-122711 adlib-term-122711 1db96904-a474-3b61-a8e5-6c2d9dd557ab Lester Watson Collection Coins and Medals The princely state of Kodagu, or Coorg, now part of modern Karnataka in India, became an ally of the British in India due to the threat posed by Tipu Sultan, King of Mysore, who had occupied the country three times and been repelled twice. In 1799 Kodagu was afforded the protection of the British East India Co., but in 1820 the young Vira Raja succeeded, and his liquidation of his family rivals and other actions which could be considered treasonable led to a British intervention in force in 1834, after which the state was formally annexed by the Company. One of the effects of the Company take-over was that taxes were now paid in money rather than in kind, and this seems to have been the cause behind a rising by the Gauda people in Kanara, a province of Kodagu. The rising met with little success due to the loyalty of the Kodavas to British rule. This loyalty was immediately rewarded by the East India Company with this issue of this medal, of which about 250 were struck, to the loyal people of the Kanara area. The medals were issued unnamed, and so the recipient's identity is unknown. Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928. reference exhibition-2271 adlib-exhibition-2271 605a8492-3164-31f4-a420-511eba2bdb91 Images of Empire: The British Empire on 19th century medals 36 reference exhibition-1967 adlib-exhibition-1967 6984c1c2-8fb8-37f2-bc1e-13468b4a0475 Imagery of War CM.1182-2009 1 accession number CM.1182-2009 141276 priref 141276 Watson Catalogue 68 ordering M-0065 previous object number LW.0065 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141276 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141276 Coorg warrior standing left with knife and musket obverse design War trophies reverse FOR DISTINGUISHED CONDUCT AND LOYALTY TO THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT / COORG APRIL 1837 design reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Given by Lester Watson through Cambridge in America, 2009 reference agent-206432 adlib-agent-206432 e0b1da8e-f9e4-30be-9257-f82c89d45afb Watson, Lester 2009 2009 2009 given on loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum 2005-2009 1837 CE 1837 1837 mint reference agent-167755 adlib-agent-167755 627a5b0f-5cae-3ff7-a61b-7f2fe07b5c96 Calcutta issuer reference agent-167567 adlib-agent-167567 5ce1f666-30e0-383b-bee5-fff00c8b2f38 East India Company struck in the rule of ruler reference agent-151398 adlib-agent-151398 bb2cd0a1-0a27-3787-a684-475d3b199972 Victoria (1837-1901) reference term-123133 adlib-term-123133 f13e3f6e-a3e0-3063-8865-7cbee4ef9327 Calcutta reference term-39778 adlib-term-39778 8bd60ed6-968d-3faf-8ad5-b4e4ee9bb245 silver Diameter mm 50.3 Weight g 50.41 reference media-116103 adlib-media-116103 688c22b3-eef7-326c-990b-e165827bcf7b jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0065_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 162 1742589784162 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0065_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 162 1742589784162 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0065_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 162 1742589784162 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0065_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 162 1742589784162 1 image 0 media image reference media-116104 adlib-media-116104 b04f3e12-943c-3481-9a71-31807afc6d8b jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0065_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 173 1742589707057 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0065_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 173 1742589707057 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0065_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 173 1742589707057 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0065_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 173 1742589707057 1 image 1 media image reference term-122794 adlib-term-122794 62a8249a-f873-3764-b534-f7049a56ffd7 Coorg Medal denomination reference term-98222 adlib-term-98222 b5ccc43a-7491-344e-b6ca-5df39a11c50e medals series reference term-108659 adlib-term-108659 cc732dec-4543-389e-a737-cf22bb7d2ee2 Military subseries reference term-107681 adlib-term-107681 e80da827-45c6-3b71-a3ef-28794a05e4a8 Britain subsubseries reference term-122773 adlib-term-122773 db85fdc9-9911-3752-9e56-d49f13af43b7 East India Co. subsubsubseries history note Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection, bt before 1928 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 114 reference publication-5886 adlib-publication-5886 a6056c29-399c-38dd-9710-5b3f2d44b8a6 British Battles and Medals 7th edn reference publication-5910 adlib-publication-5910 0d1d8526-5493-32bd-93b4-acd4cdcec7f9 British and other Campaign and Gallantry Medals From the Collection of Lester Watson (d. 1959)

reference term-122794 adlib-term-122794 62a8249a-f873-3764-b534-f7049a56ffd7 Coorg Medal

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