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Auction: 13019 - North East Indian Coins from the Nicholas Rhodes Collection
Lot: 522

Kangra, AE Paisa, 10.46g in the name of "Shah Bahadur," undated, sikka shah bahadur, rev. zarb kangra, good very fine and very rare

This coin was published by Nicholas Rhodes in ONS Newsletter 129 (1991). In the article he stated that only one other coin of this type, lighter in weight (7.60g) was known and that was in the British Museum collection.
It is not clear at all when this coin was struck. Nicholas thought the shah bahadur was more likely to be an epithet "brave king" rather than refer to any ruler of that name. He suspected the issue may have been made after 1846, either just before the fort was ceded to the British, or during one of the uprisings of c. 1848.

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