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1/2 Mohar - Jaya Prakash Malla
| Issuer | Kathmandu Kingdom |
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| Year | 1736 |
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| Currency | Mohar (1546-1932) |
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| Obverse description | Central field features a stylised trishula (trident) device within a circular medallion, flanked by scrolling foliate ornaments in high relief. Three cartouches containing Newar script legends are arranged around the central medallion — one at the top, one to the left, and one at the bottom — separated by decorative beaded vine elements. The entire design is enclosed within a plain inner circle and an outer beaded border running along the rim. The composition displays the characteristically bold, flowing artistic style of Malla-period hammered coinage from Kathmandu. |
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| Obverse lettering | श्री श्री जय प्र का श १७९३ |
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Jaya Prakash Malla ruled Kathmandu through one of the most turbulent periods in Newar history, spending much of his reign in open conflict with neighboring Patan and Bhaktapur as the three valley kingdoms exhausted each other in internecine warfare. That prolonged instability ultimately left them unable to resist Prithvi Narayan Shah's Gorkha campaigns — Kathmandu fell in 1768. Coinage from his reign circulated in an economy still heavily dependent on trans-Himalayan trade routes connecting the Indian plains to Tibet, where Nepalese silver coin was the preferred exchange medium.