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1 Dam - Jaya Prakash Malla
| Issuer | Kathmandu Kingdom |
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| Year | 1735-1746 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Devanagari |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is blank, as this is a uniface coin with all inscriptions confined to the obverse. The plain, unworked surface retains the irregular contours of the hammered flan, typical of small-denomination dam coinage produced in the Kathmandu Valley during the eighteenth century. |
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Jaya Prakash Malla ruled Kathmandu during one of the most turbulent stretches in Newar political history, a period of fractured alliances and near-constant warfare among the three rival Malla kingdoms of the valley. His reign would ultimately end in 1768 when Prithvi Narayan Shah's Gorkha forces swept through and extinguished the Malla dynasties entirely. At one-twentieth of a mohar, the dam denomination was the smallest practical silver unit in circulation — producing it at this scale required exceptional die-cutting skill, and surviving examples almost universally show some degree of weak or off-center striking simply due to the mechanical difficulty of controlling such a tiny flan.