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Auction: 13019 - North East Indian Coins from the Nicholas Rhodes Collection
Lot: 528

Kumaon, AR Timasha, 2.05g, in the name of Girvan Yuddha Vikram Shah of Nepal, Khumaon mint, dated SV 1868 (AD 1811), mahrajah girvan juddha vikram shah, rev. zarb khumaun samvat 1868 (ONS 151), good very fine, very rare

This coin was published by NR in JONS 151 (1997). In the article he quotes a passage from a work by Mahesh Chandra Regmi as follows:
"From Almora, Kumaon, Chautraiya Bam Shah and Subba Hastadal Shahi submitted a recommendation to Kathmandu that the iron coins of Almora be abolished and a mint started there for minting pure Paisa and Timasi coins. They add that the people of Kumaon would welcome such an arrangement... A royal order was issued on Tuesday, Baisakh Sudi 14, 1868 granting the permission....."
The date on this coin accords with the date of the permission and must have been struck as a result. Whether or not the people of Kumaon really did welcome the issue is uncertain in view of its great rarity.

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