1 Sho 2/3 Mohar

Struck during the reign of Prithvi Narayan Shah, who had unified the Kathmandu Valley just a decade earlier after conquering the three Malla kingdoms. The Nepalese monetary system of this period was notoriously fragmented — the Sho and Mohar denominations ran in parallel with older Malla-era coinage that continued to circulate long after political unification. This piece occupies an awkward fractional position that reflects the difficulty of rationalizing inherited monetary systems under a new dynasty still consolidating administrative control.