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¾ Sho - Pratap Simha
| Issuer | Nepal |
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| Year | 1775 |
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| Currency | Mohar (1546-1932) |
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| Obverse description | Crescent-shaped hammered silver flan displaying two square cartouches containing Devanagari inscriptions in the fields, separated by a central device. The surfaces bear decorative dot and line border elements characteristic of late 18th-century Nepalese coinage. The overall design follows the traditional Nepalese pagoda-style layout adapted to the distinctive annular sector format. |
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| Mintage | 1697 (1775) - SE1697 - 1699 (CE1775-7) |
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Pratap Simha ruled Nepal for less than two years, dying in 1777 at roughly eighteen years of age, making his coinage issues among the shortest-reigned of any Shah monarch. The ¾ Sho denomination itself is a distinctly Nepalese fractional unit tied to the tanka-based system then in use across the Kathmandu Valley kingdoms, which had only recently been unified under Prithvi Narayan Shah — Pratap Simha's father — after the conquest of Kathmandu in 1768.
Silver supplies for these issues drew on trade with Tibet, a commercial relationship that shaped Nepalese coinage weights and finesse standards well into the nineteenth century.