1769Ramakanta Simha九边金牌 近未流通。The Nicholas Rhodes Collection: Coins of North East India (Part 2)。Assam, Ramakanta Simha (1769), nine-sided gold 1½-Mohur, 17.09g, Sk.1691, Śrī Śrī Yasta/bhuja Gosā/ni Devatā/ra Sevakarev. Śrī Śrī Svarga/ Deva Ramākā/nta Simha Nrpasya/ Śāke 1691, winged lion below right (RB. P1.1; N.G. Rhodes, ?A gold coin of Ramakanta Simha,? Numismatic Digest 23-24 (1999-2000), pp. 87-9), light surface deposits, good extremely fine, virtually as struck and exceptionally rare.
Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer?s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.。After the death of Rajeśvara Simha there was a succession dispute between those supporting Rudra Simha?s youngest son, Lakshmi Simha, and those supporting Rajeśvara?s son. The Borbarua, one of the five councillors of state, held power during this period. He caused great offence to the Moamaria Gosain, a caste of Assamese Brahmins who took their revenge by rebelling and capturing the Ahom capital. Ramakanta Simha was installed as king by them.
His coins are exceedingly rare as the Moamaria rebellion was soon quelled and, in 1770, Lakshmi Simha took possession of the throne.This particular example is unusual in several respects: it has nine sides, rather than eight, it carries a unique invocation to Astabhujadeva, who was Ramakanta?s guru, and it?s weight suggests it is a 1½-Mohur denomination. Rhodes comments that all eleven known coins of this type appeared on the market in 2001 and that there is an error in the first line of their obverse legends, written Yastabhua? instead of Astabhuja?.. This error had been adjusted by the time the single known 1½-Rupee coin was struck from the same dies.
