1/2 Rupee - Gaurinath Singha

Gaurinath Singha's reign was defined almost entirely by the Moamoria Rebellion, a prolonged peasant and religious uprising that destabilized the Ahom kingdom so thoroughly that Burmese intervention became, paradoxically, the royalist solution. The kingdom never fully recovered its administrative coherence. Coinage from this period reflects a contracting state, not a confident one.

The Ahom script used on these silver issues remained deliberately arcane to outside traders — a conscious retention of cultural distinctiveness against both Mughal commercial networks and encroaching British influence from Bengal.