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Auction: 13019 - North East Indian Coins from the Nicholas Rhodes Collection
Lot: 374

Assam, Lakshmi Simha, octagonal Rupee, 11.17g, Assamese script, Sk. 1692, with invocation to Vishnu and Śiva, Śri Śri Ha/ri Hara Parama/ Pada Padma Pa/rayanasya, rev. Śri Śri Svarga/ Deva Śri Laksmi/ Simha Nripasya/ Śake 1692, lion running right, below; Half-Rupee, 5.68g, undated, Śri Śri Ha/ri Hara Pada/ Parasya, rev. Śri Śri La/ksmi Simha Na/rendrasya (RB. Q23.1, 35.1; KM. 181, 177), very fine to good very fine, scarce (2)

In his first year, apart from the very rare Ahom-legend coins, Lakshmi Simha issued two types of Assamese-legend coins, this one with its Vaishnava invocations and the usual Śivaite type with its invocation to Hara and Gauri. The former may have been issued as an attempt to appease the Moamarias.

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