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1/2 Ashrafi - Wajid Ali Banaras mint
| Issuer | Awadh |
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| Year | 1847-1855 |
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| Weight | 5.67 g |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
| Obverse lettering | سلطان عالم بادشاه غازی واجد علی شاہ ١٢٦٣ |
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Wajid Ali Shah's reign over Awadh ended not through military defeat but bureaucratic annexation — the East India Company declared the kingdom lapsed in 1856 under Dalhousie's Doctrine of Lapse, despite Wajid Ali having a living heir. The coinage struck at Banaras during his tenure thus spans a compressed window of under a decade, cut short by one of the more cynical applications of Company policy in the subcontinent.
The Banaras mint had operated under successive Nawabs as a secondary facility to Lucknow, and half-ashrafi denominations from this period are considerably scarcer than full ashrafis across all surviving collections.