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Auction: 25088 - The Nicholas Rhodes Collection of Nepalese Coins Part I
Lot: 15

Anonymous Late Licchavi, lightweight Pana or Half-Pana (57), copper alloy (c. 680), Obv. four large and four small petals with one syllable of the legend Paśupati in each of the larger petals, and Śrī in central circle, Rev. similar to obverse, different die types and flan sizes, bull standing right or left, or with legend arranged around a central circle (RGV 159 var, 163-166), fine to very fine (57)

Provenance

The Nicholas Rhodes Collection of Nepalese Coins and Medals: Part One



This lot contains light-weight late Licchavi coins which were described in the following article: Rhodes, Nicholas: "A Late Licchavi Hoard from Nepal", ONS Newsletter, No.155 (Winter 1998), p. 22-23. The coins come from a hoard about than 1200 Licchavi coins which were found in 1997 in Panch Khal, a village near Banepa (east of Kathamandu). About 200 coins had clear designs and/or readable legends and were unknown types or variants of RGV 159. Nicholas Rhodes suspects that the remaining 1000 coins were mostly of the fairly common type RGV 97. Most of the 67 coins were acquired by Nicholas Rhodes from the Kathmandu coin dealer Purushatom Lal Shrestha and they were taken out of the best part of the hoard.



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Estimate
£300 to £500

Starting price
£210