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Tanka - Ananta Manikya
| Issuer | Princely state of Tripura (Indian princely states) |
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| Year | 1565 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Stylized lion of Tripura depicted in profile running to left, rendered in a bold, archaic artistic style characteristic of medieval Indian hammered coinage. The figure is enclosed within a detailed decorative border that frames the central device. Bengali script lettering appears within the field surrounding the lion motif. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ananta Manikya ruled Tripura in the mid-sixteenth century during a period when the kingdom was caught between expanding Mughal pressure to the west and persistent conflict with the Sultanate of Bengal. The tanka denomination itself was inherited from Bengal Sultanate monetary conventions — a deliberate signal that Tripura's rulers were operating within the broader numismatic grammar of the subcontinent even as they maintained dynastic independence.
KM#74 is one of the scarcer attributable issues from the Manikya dynasty, a sequence notoriously difficult to date precisely given the limited surviving court records from this reign.