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# 297 / Rupee SE 1477 Nara Narayan India C Indep. Kingdoms - Cooch Behar
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# 298Rupee SE 1477 Nara NarayanIndia C Indep. Kingdoms - Cooch Behar India – Cooch Behar – Nara Narayan (AD 1555-1587). Narayani Rupee SE 1477 (AD 1555), Mint: w/o (Uncertain), Silver (ø 31 mm – w. 10.15 g.). Edge: plain. Rhodes-Bose 3. Mitchiner 2441-2.
Obverse: Sanskrit legend in archaic Bengali-Nagari script. In four lines the King's devotion to the deity Shiva (Sri Sri Shiva Charana Kamala Madhu Karasya = A bee on the lotus at the feet of the twice exalted Shiva). Border of dots between two circles.
Reverse: Sanskrit legend in archaic Bengali script. In four lines the King's name with tiltes and the date at bottom (Sri Sriman Nara Narayana Bhupalasya Sake 1477 = (Coin) of the twice exalted Master of the World Nara Narayan, Year 1477). Border of dots between two circles.
Note: No horizontal lines. SRI SRI and SHI, RA and NA of Shiva Charana written in Nagari on obverse.
Provenance: Stephen Album Rare Coins, California, Auction 10, 22-23 April 2011, Lot 1330. Ex Eck Prud'homme Collection.
Literature: Mitchiner M. – Oriental Coins and their values / Non-Islamic States and Western Colonies / AD 600-1979 – Hawkins Pub., London, 1979. Rhodes N.G and Bose S.K. – The Coinage of Cooch Behar – Published by Mira Bose, Calcutta-India, 1999.