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1 Tanka - Yaso Manikya
| Issuer | Tripura, Princely state of |
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| Year | 1600 |
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| Value | 1 Tanka |
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| Obverse description | Central figure of Krishna standing upon a lion, depicted playing the flute, flanked on either side by a gopi in attendance. The composition is rendered in a naive but vigorous style characteristic of Tripura state coinage. The design is enclosed within a border of annulets framing the entire field. |
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| Reverse description | A four-line devotional and regal legend in Bengali script, contained within a recessed square cartouche with decorative scrollwork border occupying the outer field. The inscription invokes the ruling king Yaso Manikya Deva and the goddesses Lakshmi and Gauri, in a formula typical of the religious-royal titulature of the Tripura Manikya dynasty. |
| Reverse script | Bengali |
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