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1/2 Rupee - Brajanath Gohain
| Issuer | Kingdom of Assam |
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| Year | 1818-1819 |
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| Diameter | 17 mm |
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| Reverse description | Octagonal hammered reverse bearing a four-line devotional Assamese inscription arranged in horizontal registers across the field, reading 'শ্রী শ্রী / হৰ গৌৰী / চৰণ কমল / মধু কৰস্য', a Sanskrit-derived invocation meaning 'the bee at the lotus feet of Shiva and Gauri'. A dotted border follows the inner periphery of the octagonal rim. The inscription fills the available field and is executed in the Assamese script style consistent with Ahom royal coinage of the early nineteenth century. |
| Reverse script | Assamese |
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Brajanath Gohain served as a subordinate chief under the Ahom kingdom during its terminal decline, a period when Burmese invasions had effectively dismembered Assam's political structure. This coin was struck in the final years before the First Anglo-Burmese War and the subsequent Treaty of Yandabo in 1826, which transferred Assam to British East India Company control and extinguished indigenous coinage production entirely. The Ahom tradition of issuing rupee-weight silver in the names of subordinate lords makes attribution within the series genuinely complex.