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1 Tankah - Maha Thamada Raza
| Issuer | Arakan, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1783 |
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| Currency | Tankah |
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| Obverse description | The entire field is occupied by a multi-line religious and royal inscription rendered in Arakanese script (a variant of the Mon-Burmese script), boldly struck in high relief against an irregular hammered flan. The characters are arranged in horizontal registers filling the coin from rim to rim, with no border or decorative framing elements. The deeply incised letterforms display the characteristic rounded, cursive style typical of late Arakanese coinage. The inscription records the royal titulature and regnal invocation of King Maha Thamada Raza. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Arakan's coinage of this period reflects the kingdom's increasingly precarious position between Burmese expansionism and the residual influence of Mughal monetary conventions adopted centuries earlier. The tankah denomination itself traces to Indo-Persian traditions absorbed during Arakan's Muslim court phase, when kings took Bengali titles alongside their Buddhist ones. Maha Thamada Raza issued this piece just nine years before the Burmese Konbaung dynasty's 1784 conquest, which ended Arakanese independence entirely and drove roughly 35,000 refugees into British Bengal.