1/2 Mohar - Jaya Prakash Malla

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.