1/4 Rupee - Brajanath Gohain

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.