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60 Ratti - Harikela Kingdom Bengal
| Issuer | Harikela Kingdom |
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| Year | 700-900 |
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| Currency | Ratti |
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| Obverse script | Brahmi |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Harikela kingdom occupied the southeastern corner of Bengal — roughly modern Chittagong and the coastal delta — and its silver coinage circulated through a trading network that connected the Bay of Bengal ports to Southeast Asian maritime routes. These coins were not struck to imperial specification but cast and finished to a ratti weight standard rooted in the weight of the Abrus precatorius seed, a botanical measure used across the subcontinent for centuries before any mint authority standardized it.
Mitchell's classification in Coins of the Indian Subcontinent groups Harikela issues loosely across a two-century window precisely because no ruling dynastic sequence has been firmly established from inscriptions or records alone.