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Auction: 13019 - North East Indian Coins from the Nicholas Rhodes Collection
Lot: 100

Tripura, Ishvara Manikya (1600), Tanka, 10.60g, Sk 1522, two queens each named Ishvara, lion facing left, standard above, date below, all within circle and border of circles with a bead in each, rev. in four lines: Śri Śri Yutisvara/ Manikya Deva Śri/ Isvara Śri Isva/ra Maha Devyah in square with ornaments outside (RB. 190; KM. 114), about extremely fine and very rare

This issue is remarkable in citing two queens at the same time. The only other such occurrence is on the Krishna coins of Yaso Manikya struck during his second reign, where some issues even have three queens cited at the same time.
Another specimen of Ishvara Manikya sold for $1700 in Steve Album's auction 10 in 2011.

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