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Auction: 16041 - The Nicholas Rhodes Collection: Coins of North East India (Part 2)
Lot: 308

Assam, Pramatta Simha (1744-51), old jewellery imitataion of an octagonal gold Mohur, 5.65g, undated, Assamese script, Śrī Śrī/ Śiva Pada/ Parasya, rev. Śrī Śrī Pra/matta Simha/ Nrpasya, lion below, running left (RB. item 59, p.123), poorly engraved, very fine

Rhodes notes that this coin was struck using the same dies used for making the ‘Country-made’ Half-Rupees (see below). He notes a die duplicate in the Botham Collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum, and remarks on the rarity of these coins in gold.

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£350