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Auction: 16041 - The Nicholas Rhodes Collection: Coins of North East India (Part 2)
Lot: 96

Tripura, Amara Manikya (1577-86), Tanka, 10.51g, Sk.1503, citing Queen Amaravati, commemorating the conquest of Sylhet, lion facing left, standard (type 'i') above, date below, all within circle and outer border of double arches with pellets, rev. Śrīhatte Vijayi/ Śrī Śrī Yutāmara Mā/nikya Deva Śrī A/marāvatī Devyau in square with ornamented borders (RB. 170; KM. 92), very fine


This, the last of Amara Manikya’s issues, has the explicit epithet Srihatta Vijayi - “Conqueror of Sylhet”

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