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1/2 Anna- Jahan Begam
| Issuer | Bhopal, Princely state of |
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| Year | 1885-1889 |
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| Currency | Rupee (1723-1947) |
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| Obverse lettering | شاه جهان بيگم |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Jahan Begam ruled Bhopal from 1868 to 1901, one of four consecutive female rulers of the state across nearly a century — an almost singular dynastic continuity of women in sovereign authority anywhere in the 19th-century world. Her coinage was struck under the framework of the 1876 Indian Coinage Act, which standardized fractional copper denominations across the princely states while still permitting rulers to issue in their own names, a political concession the British found increasingly uncomfortable as the century closed.