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Auction: 23127 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 32: Indian and Islamic Coins Featuring the Klaus Bronny Collection of Bhutanese and Nepalese Coins - e-Auction
Lot: 9699

Nepal, Prithvi Narayan Shah (1742-1775), ruled in Kathmandu (1768-1775), Mohar, Type 1, SE 1671 (1749), legend in scalloped square, rev. legend in central circle, eight petals around, sword with garland in top petal, 3h, 4.08g (Rhodes, Nepal 631; RGV 584; KM 454), softly struck and therefore with some areas of flatness, nonetheless darker toning in fields, about very fine and very scarce one year of issue type

The Klaus Bronny Collection of Bhutanese and Nepalese Coins

This rare coins is the only debased issue of Prithvi Narayan. The obverse design is copied from the contemporary and equally debased mohar of Ranajit Malla of Bhatgaon.

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