Novamarketing Chiasso Medals Coins India C Indep. Kingdoms India Indep Kingdoms Cooch Behar Nara Narayan Rupee

# 296Rupee 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 24 mm – w. 10.19 g.). Edge: plain. Rhodes-Bose 1. Mitchiner 2441-2.

Obverse:
Sanskrit legend in archaic Bengali 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:
Narrow flan, no horizontal lines and the 4 of the date reversed.

Provenance:
Stephen Album Rare Coins, California, Auction 10, 22-23 April 2011, Lot 1333.
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.