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1 Tankah - Sanda Wizaya
| Issuer | Arakan, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1710-1731 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Densely arranged Bengali script characters filling the entire field in the traditional hammered style characteristic of Arakanese coinage. The legends, rendered in raised relief against a flat flan, display the royal titulature of King Sanda Wizaya in an interlocking arrangement with no clear central device. The irregular flan edges and slightly uneven strike are typical of hand-struck silver issues from this period. |
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| Mintage | ND (1710-1731) |
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Arakan's coinage of this period reflects a kingdom already in slow administrative decline, sandwiched between Mughal Bengal to the west and Burmese pressure mounting from the east. The Sanda Wizaya who issued this tankah ruled during a succession crisis that had destabilized the Mrauk-U dynasty for decades — his own claim to the throne was contested. Silver tankah production under his reign was tied directly to the kingdom's dwindling but still-active coastal trade networks, particularly the Bengal delta routes where Arakanese merchants competed with Dutch and Portuguese intermediaries.
The twenty-one year span of this type's production reflects administrative continuity rather than prosperity.