1/2 Rupee - Brajanath Gohain

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.