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1 Dam - Girvan Yuddha Vikrama
| Issuer | Kingdom of Nepal |
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| Year | 1799-1816 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | Central field displaying a comb-like or trident symbol rendered in crude hammered relief, flanked by abbreviated Devanagari legends. The reverse carries the mint name Nepal and the Vikrama Samvat date 1861, corresponding to the fixed dating convention used throughout the reign of Girvan Yuddha Vikrama Shah. The inscription is arranged across the field in the compact format characteristic of small copper Dam issues, with the legend partially obscured by die misalignment and uneven striking pressure typical of hammered coinage of this series. |
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| Reverse lettering | १८६१ जर्ब नेपाल |
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Girvan Yuddha Vikrama came to the throne as an infant in 1799, with his mother Tripura Sundari serving as regent through much of his reign — a period during which Nepal was still absorbing the consequences of Prithvi Narayan Shah's unification campaigns and navigating the mounting threat of British expansion in the subcontinent. The Anglo-Nepalese War of 1814–1816 ended with the Sugauli Treaty, which stripped Nepal of roughly a third of its territory.
The dam denomination was the smallest copper unit in Nepalese circulation, and surviving examples from this reign are frequently found corroded or worn to near illegibility.