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Auction: 13019 - North East Indian Coins from the Nicholas Rhodes Collection
Lot: 238

Kings of Khyriem, in the name of Nara Narayan of Cooch Bihar, Tanka, 29mm, 10.09g, dated Sk 1477, legend in four lines on both sides, Śri Śri Śi/va Charana Ka/mala Madhu Ka/rasya [six-pointed star], rev. Śri Śrima/n Nara Naraya/na bhupalasya/ Śake 1477, line above and below legend, circle at end of 1st line; beads in lunettes and elsewhere in field, both sides within circle and border of beads (RB. Z1), good very fine, very rare

This and similar coins in the name of Nara Narayana are tentatively attributed to the Khasi King of Khyriem. Khyriem was an independent kingdom, located to the west of the Jaintia Hills, about which little is known. The reason for attributing these coins to Khyriem is their similarity to the coins of Jaintiapur in both style and the inclusion of the six-pointed star, so typical of Jaintiapur coins. Moreover, the Koch chronicle recorded that, in around AD 1563, the Cooch Behar army defeated the king of Khyriem and ordered him to strike coins in the name of Nara Narayan.

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