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1/4 Anna - Mir Mahbub Ali Khan Modernized Pattern
| Issuer | Princely state of Hyderabad |
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| Year | 1902 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | (Translation: 92 Brave Nizam Mahbub Ali Khan Year 1320) |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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This piece dates to the reign of Mir Mahbub Ali Khan, the sixth Nizam, during a period when Hyderabad was actively modernizing its administrative and financial infrastructure under pressure from the British Resident. The "pattern" designation is significant — Hyderabad's currency reform efforts around the turn of the century produced numerous trial and pattern strikes that never advanced to full production, as the Nizam's government and British advisors repeatedly failed to agree on standardized coinage.
Whether this specific modernized type saw any circulation at all remains uncertain. Hyderabad did not fully rationalize its coinage until well after Mahbub Ali Khan's death in 1911.