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1 Rupee - Siva Singha and Pramateswari Devi

Issuer Assam, Kingdom of
Year 1727
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Value 1 Rupee
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Obverse script Persian
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Edge Plain
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Siva Singha ruled Assam as the last great Ahom king with genuine political authority, and the co-inscription of his queen Pramateswari Devi on coinage was a deliberate assertion of her status as co-regent — a practice with almost no parallel in contemporaneous Indian numismatics. The Ahom kingdom had minted silver rupees in its own script and language for generations, a conscious rejection of Mughal monetary conventions at a time when nearly every other regional power had adopted them.

KM#74 is among the more frequently encountered Ahom types, but genuine examples still require careful authentication — the series has been extensively reproduced.