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| Issuer | Princely state of Tripura (Indian princely states) |
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| Year | 1573 |
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| Currency | Rupee |
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| Reverse script | Bengali |
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| Mintage | 1495 (1573) |
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Jaya Manikya ruled Tripura for a remarkably brief period in the 1570s, and coins attributable to his reign are correspondingly scarce. The Manikya dynasty had governed Tripura since at least the fourteenth century, maintaining a distinct coinage tradition that drew on both Bengali and broader Indo-Muslim conventions without being fully absorbed by either. This tanka sits in that tradition — a regional silver issue from a landlocked hill kingdom that managed to preserve meaningful autonomy even as Mughal power expanded across the Bengal plain to its west.