Patan NS805 mohar KM-336
This specimen was lot 3885 in Stephen Album sale 50 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2024), where it sold for $144. The catalog description[1] noted, "PATAN: Yoga Narendra Malla, 1685-1705, AR mohar, NS805, citing the Queen Narendra Lakshmi; complex design; trace of what is likely mount removal, VF-XF, R, ex Solar Collection." The SCWC notes that the mohar was introduced during the reign of Lakshmi Narasimha to displace the debased tanka coinage. The mohar was half a rupee and coins were minted down to 1/128 mohar. The SCWC records the varieties KM 324, KM 325, 332, 336 and 337 for the date as the king honored his various queens of which he had about a dozen.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 5.34 g, silver, this specimen 5.49 g.
Catalog reference: KM-336.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 50, featuring selections from the Dr. Robert A. Rosenfeld Collection, the Hakim Hamidi Collection, the Almer H. Orr III Collection and the Solar Collection, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.
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