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1 Rupee - Jaya Narayan
| Issuer | Jaintia Kingdom |
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| Year | 1708 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | The central field is fully occupied by a multi-line legend in Bengali script rendered in bold raised characters, referencing the name and titles of King Jaya Narayan. A horizontal line divides the main inscription from a single line of numerals in the lower segment of the field, indicating a regnal or Saka era date. The entire design is enclosed within a continuous beaded border that runs around the full circumference of the coin. |
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| Mintage | 1630 (1708) - 1708 |
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The Jaintia Kingdom, occupying the hills of what is now Meghalaya, operated as a largely independent polity well into the eighteenth century despite sustained Mughal pressure on the surrounding plains. Its coinage drew formally on Mughal weight standards while remaining entirely outside the imperial mint system. KM#160 is among the documented issues attributed to the reign of Jaya Narayan, one of the later Jaintia rajas, and survivors are genuinely scarce — the kingdom's output was never high-volume, and the region's humidity has not been kind to silver.