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Auction: 13019 - North East Indian Coins from the Nicholas Rhodes Collection
Lot: 231

Cooch Behar, Dharendra or Harendra Narayan, Quarter-Rupee, 2.25g, only part of the legends visible, not in RB or KM, very fine and presumably very rare

There are no other Quarter-Rupees of this period in the collection.
As a result of a treaty signed in 1774 after the then ruler had sought British help against a rival and the Bhutanese, Cooch Behar had become a tributory of the British. The latter subequently made various attempts to get the state and its inhabitants to accept Company currency, but in vain. As a result they closed the mint from 1789 to about 1795 and then, again in 1800. It was permanently closed at the end of 1845.

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