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Auction: 16041 - The Nicholas Rhodes Collection: Coins of North East India (Part 2)
Lot: 277

Assam, Rudra Simha (1696-1714), octagonal gold Mohur, 11.24g, Sk.1620, four-line legends both sides, Śrī Śrī Ha/ra Gaurī Pa/dāmbuja Madhu/karasya, rev. Śrī Śrīmat/ Svarga Deva Ru/dra Simhasya Śā/ke 1620, lion running left below (RB. F1.1; KM. 45), very fine, extremely rare

Rudra Simha succeeded his father in AD 1696 and straightaway made significant changes to the coinage: the inscriptions were Sanskrit rather than Ahom, and engraved in Assamese script, and the coins (apart from the Half- Rupees) began to bear the actual date of striking, not a fixed date. The coins also bear a Saivite invocation. Gold coinage is extremely rare, being known from very few examples.

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