1/4 Mohar - Ranajit Malla

Bhaktapur was the smallest and most isolated of the three Newar kingdoms of the Kathmandu Valley, and by Ranajit Malla's reign it was already under sustained political pressure from the expanding Gorkha kingdom to the west. Prithvi Narayan Shah would conquer all three valley kingdoms between 1744 and 1769, ending Newar coinage entirely. This quarter mohar dates to a period when Bhaktapur's mint was still active but the kingdom had perhaps forty years left.