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1 Paisa - Rana Bahadur
| Issuer | Nepal |
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| Year | 1777-1792 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Devanagari |
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| Reverse description | Central field bearing a multi-line inscription in Perso-Arabic (Naskh) script, with the regnal date expressed in Hijri numerals positioned near the bottom of the field. The legends are arranged horizontally across the flan in the Mughal-influenced chancellery style common to Nepalese copper issues of this period, with cursive strokes in raised relief against a plain, unbordered field. |
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Rana Bahadur Shah ascended the throne of Nepal as an infant in 1777 following the death of his father Pratap Singh Shah, with the kingdom governed by a succession of regents throughout his minority. His reign was marked by political instability severe enough that he was eventually forced into exile in British India in 1800 — an almost unprecedented humiliation for a Shah monarch. The copper coinage of this period reflects that administrative turbulence; production continuity depended on whoever held effective power at Kathmandu, not the nominal ruler.