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1/2 Rupee - Alamgir II Arcot
| Issuer | Arcot Nawabate |
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| Year | 1754-1755 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Reverse lettering | سنه جلوس میمنت مانوس ضرب ارکات |
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| Mintage | 1167 (1754) - Arkat mint - 1168 (1755) - Arkat mint - |
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Alamgir II was the Mughal emperor in name only by this period — effectively a puppet, first of the Marathas and then of the Afghan warlord Ahmad Shah Durrani, who had him murdered in 1759. The Arcot Nawabate struck in his regnal name as a matter of political convention, not loyalty. By the mid-1750s, the Nawabate itself was caught between the British and French East India Companies fighting proxy wars across the Carnatic, a conflict that would effectively end Arcot's independence within a generation.