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Auction: 13019 - North East Indian Coins from the Nicholas Rhodes Collection
Lot: 6

Tripura, Ratna Manikya, Tanka, 10.45g, Sk 1386, Śri Chaturdasa De/va Charana para/ Śaka 1386, below 14 vertical lines and curved line, rev. Śri Śri Yuta/ Ratna Mani/kya Deva within double incurving octagon, (RB. 4; KM. 1), good very fine with slight toning, of the highest rarity




This exceptional issue, of which RB mentions only one specimen, pays homage to the fourteen local deities worshipped in Tripura, the Chaturdasa Devata, who are represented by the fourteen vertical lines on the obverse, and where the curved line would represent a garland. The inspiration for such a design will have been taken from various issues of the Bengal sultans, Jalal al-Din Muhammad and Nasir al-Din Mahmud where inscription were engraved in tughra-style characters, using long vertical lines.

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