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¾ Sho - Pratap Simha
| Issuer | Nepal |
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| Year | 1775 |
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| Currency | Mohar (1546-1932) |
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| Reverse description | Reverse of crescent-shaped flan featuring two square cartouches with Devanagari legends flanking a central device, mirroring the obverse layout. Dot clusters and geometric border ornaments fill the remaining field areas. The hammered striking technique results in slightly irregular surfaces typical of Nepalese issues of this period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Pratap Simha ruled Nepal for less than two years, dying in 1777 at roughly eighteen years of age, making his coinage issues among the shortest-reigned of any Shah monarch. The ¾ Sho denomination itself is a distinctly Nepalese fractional unit tied to the tanka-based system then in use across the Kathmandu Valley kingdoms, which had only recently been unified under Prithvi Narayan Shah — Pratap Simha's father — after the conquest of Kathmandu in 1768.
Silver supplies for these issues drew on trade with Tibet, a commercial relationship that shaped Nepalese coinage weights and finesse standards well into the nineteenth century.