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Auction: 25088 - The Nicholas Rhodes Collection of Nepalese Coins Part I
Lot: 167

Nepal, Girvan Yuddha Vikram Shah (1799-1816), Suki (6), Suki, SE 1723, in the name of Raja Rajeshvari (as regent for Girvan Yuddha), Obv. water pot with garland in centre and legend Śrī 3/Raja/Rāje/ śvarī/Devī, Rev. trident in centre between two pseudo-Persian characters and legend Śrī/ Śrī Bha/vānī/1723, 1.33g, 12h; and, Suki, SE 1728, in the name of queen Lalita Tripura, Obv. mirror on stand and legend around Śrī/Lali/ta Ttri/pura Sunda/rī Devī, Rev. trident between two pseudo-Persian characters, legend Śrī/ Śrī Bha/vānī/1728, 1.31g, 12h; and, Suki (3), SE 1730; 1733, in the name of Siddhi Lakshmi Devi, Obv. offering vase with garland and crescent and dot above, legend Śrī Śrī/Siddhi/Lak?mī /Devī, Rev. trident in centre between two pseudo-Persian characters, legend Śrī/ Śrī Bha/vānī/date, variant dies; 1.38g, 11h; 1.27g, 12h; and, Suki, SE 1738, in the name of Goraksha Rajya Devi, Obv. mirror in centre, crescent and sun on either side of upper part of mirror and pellet on either side, legend Śrī/ Gora/k?a Rā/jya La/k?mī Devī., Rev. trident between two pseudo-Persian characters, legend Śrī/ Śrī Bha/vānī/1738, 1.32g, 12h; another, much as before, SE 173[?], last digit overstruck,1.33g, 12h (RGV 803, 807, 809, 811, 813), the first and example dated 1738 previously mounted, the 1733 example crimped, generally fine to extremely fine (6)

Provenance

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

i) M. Sakya, by private treaty, September 1967

ii) Purchased Patan, September 1967

iii-iv) Bhupendra Narayan Shrestha, by private treaty, September 1964

v) Gunther Grosch, by private treaty, December 1965

vi) Bhupendra Narayan Shrestha, by private treaty, November 1984



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£210