The Nicholas Rhodes Collection: Coins of North East India (Part 2)。Kumaon, AR Timasha, 2.19g, in the name of Girvan Yuddha Vikram Shah of Nepal, Kumaon mint, dated VS 1868 (AD 1811), mahrājah gīrvān jū[ddha vikrām shah], rev. zarb khumāūn samvat [1]868 (JONS 151, pp.14-15), partially flat, good very fine, very rare. Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer?s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.。This coin was published by Nicholas Rhodes 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. In the previous Rhodes auction a similar coin sold for ￡340 (lot 528)
