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1 Mohar - Riddhi Narasimha
| Issuer | Patan Kingdom |
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| Year | 1715 |
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| Weight | 5.2 g |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays a stylized lion passant to the left in low relief, rendered in the traditional Newar artistic style. The central motif is enclosed within a multi-petalled floral or lotus border composed of curved, interlocking petal forms. Nepalese Devanagari legends fill the spaces between the petals, with additional inscription bands occupying the surrounding annular field. The entire design is contained within a beaded or dentilated outer rim characteristic of Patan Kingdom silver mohars. |
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| Mint | Patan (Lalitpur) |
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Patan — one of the three rival Newari kingdoms occupying the Kathmandu Valley — maintained its own mint and coinage traditions entirely distinct from neighboring Kathmandu and Bhaktapur, despite the cities lying within a few kilometers of one another. The mohar was the standard silver unit across all three kingdoms, but designs and rulers' names diverged sharply, making attribution essential. Riddhi Narasimha Malla ruled Patan from 1685 until the kingdom's absorption by Prithvi Narayan Shah's Gorkha forces in 1736, a conquest that extinguished Patan's independent coinage after roughly a century of continuous minting.