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Timsha - Girvan Yuddha
| Issuer | Garhwal, Princely state of |
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| Year | 1806-1815 |
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| Value | 1 Timsha |
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| Obverse script | Arabic/Persian |
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| Reverse description | Central field bears a multi-line Persian calligraphic legend referencing the local Garhwali ruler Maharaja Girvan Yuddha Bikram Shah, with the mint name Srinagar (Garhwal) and the regnal or Samvat year 55, corresponding to Samvat 1855 (circa 1798 AD), the accession year of Girvan Yuddha. The inscription is arranged in registers across the flan in a bold, hand-engraved style. The lettering shows the characteristic uneven strike of hammered coinage, with portions of the legend occasionally weak or off-flan due to the irregular planchet. |
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Garhwal's coinage history was violently interrupted in 1803 when Gurkha forces swept through the Himalayan foothills and occupied the kingdom, deposing the ruling Sudarshan Shah. The Timsha — a denomination peculiar to the hill states of this region — continued to be struck under Gurkha administration, making attribution of transitional issues genuinely contested among specialists. This piece, dated to the Girvan Yuddha period, falls squarely within the Gurkha occupation, meaning the issuing authority named on the coin and the political reality on the ground were not the same thing.