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1/2 Rupee - Shah Jahana Begum
| Issuer | Princely State of Bhopal |
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| Year | 1876-1892 |
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| Currency | Rupee (1723-1947) |
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| Obverse lettering | نصف روپیہ / سنه ١٣٠٣ |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Shah Jahana Begum ruled Bhopal from 1868 to 1901, one of four successive women who governed the state across most of the nineteenth century — an unbroken female succession unique among the princely states. Her coins were struck under continued British suzerainty, but Bhopal's nawabs retained the right to issue regal coinage, a privilege many contemporaneous states had already surrendered by this period.
The KM#28.1 and 28.2 varieties differ in die details accumulated across the production run, reflecting the informal minting practices of smaller state operations rather than any deliberate design revision.