1/4 Mohar - Ranajit Malla

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Beschrijving keerzijde	Central field bearing a stylised face or mask of Bhairava (a fierce form of Shiva), depicted frontally with prominent eyes, a third eye on the forehead, and a crescent moon above the crown. The deity's visage is rendered in the bold, schematic hammered style typical of Bhaktapur mint coinage. Devanagari legends are distributed across the field in the four quadrants, recording the divine invocation and the Nepal Sambat regnal date. The design is enclosed within a plain inner circle and a beaded outer border.
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Aanvullende informatie	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.