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Auction: 13019 - North East Indian Coins from the Nicholas Rhodes Collection
Lot: 5

Tripura, Ratna Manikya (1464-89), Tanka, 10.43g, undated, legend within octagonal and wavy border, Śri; Na/rayana Chara/na para, rev. Śri Śri Ra/tna Mani/kya Devah legend within scalloped circle, (RB. 1), good very fine, extremely rare

This is one of the very first issues of the Tripura state. Ratna Manikya had spent some years at the court of the Bengal sultan, Rukn al-Din Barbak Shah, and will have been familiar with the issues of that sultanate, including those struck during the brief reigns of Danuja Marddana Deva and Mahendra Deva, which used contemporary Bengali script rather than the usual Perso-Arabic script. The legend invokes Vishnu in the form of Narayana.

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Estimate
£1,200 to £2,000