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Auction: 13019 - North East Indian Coins from the Nicholas Rhodes Collection
Lot: 481

Governors of Chittagong, Islam Shah (BE 959; AD 1597), trilingual Tanka, 10.00g, BE 959, legends in Arakanese, Arabic and Bengali (G&G. CG2), good very fine, very rare

On this coin, Islam Shah calls himself the "royal son of Naradibbati, King of the West" in the Arakanese legend. His governorship was short, less than a year.

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