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1 Timasha - Girvan Yuddha Bikram Shah [Gurkha Occupation] Kumaon
| Issuer | Kingdom of Kumaon (Indian Hindu Dynasties) |
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| Year | 1770-1799 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a two-line Nastaliq legend arranged in horizontal registers across the central field, recording the mint name and Samvat regnal year. The inscription reads 'zarb Khumaun samvat 1868,' indicating the Almora mint and the Vikrama Samvat date. A decorative beaded inner border runs along the lower and lateral periphery of the flan, providing a frame to the legend. The flan retains the irregular, slightly scalloped outline typical of hammered silver coinage of this period. The field between the lines of text shows a lightly textured surface consistent with hand-die production. |
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| Mintage | 1770 //12 1772 //14 1776 //18 1777 //19 1779 //21 1780 //22 1799 //41 |
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Kumaon fell to Gurkha forces around 1790–91, ending the rule of the Chand dynasty after roughly six centuries. The Gorkha occupation lasted until 1815, when the Anglo-Nepalese War concluded with the Treaty of Sugauli and British forces absorbed the region into the Kumaon division of British India. Coins struck under Girvan Yuddha Bikram Shah — who ruled Nepal from 1799 to 1816 — name him as overlord while retaining local denominational conventions, a pattern the Gorkhali administration repeated across their Himalayan conquests in Garhwal and Sikkim.