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1/4 Rupee - Brajanath Gohain
| Issuer | Assam, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1817-1818 |
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| Value | 1/4 Rupee |
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| Obverse description | Octagonal flan bearing a multi-line Assamese script legend within the central field, reading 'Sri Sri Brajanath Simha', the royal name and title of the issuing Ahom king. The inscription is arranged in horizontal registers across the face, rendered in the traditional Assamese script characteristic of Ahom coinage. The field is flat with no additional decorative devices or border ornamentation beyond the octagonal coin edge. |
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| Obverse script | Assamese |
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Brajanath Gohain was a powerful noble of the late Ahom kingdom, issuing coinage during the final, chaotic years before the British East India Company absorbed Assam following the First Anglo-Burmese War and the Treaty of Yandabo in 1826. By 1817–1818 the Ahom kingdom had already been invaded twice by the Burmese and was functionally collapsing — local chiefs minting their own silver was less an assertion of authority than a symptom of central power dissolving entirely.