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1/4 Rupee - Afzal-ad-Daula AH1273-1285
| Issuer | Princely State of Hyderabad |
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| Year | 1860-1867 |
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| Weight | 2.80 g |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a multi-line Arabic legend in Nasta'liq script arranged across the field, recording the regnal year of accession and the mint name. The inscription reads the auspicious foundation mint name of Hyderabad along with the Hijri regnal year. A finely engraved horizontal line divides the field, with the lower register bearing additional text and a partial decorative border of small triangular or leaf-like devices visible along the coin's periphery. The die work is bold and deeply struck, consistent with the hammered technique employed at the Farkhunda Bunyad Hyderabad mint during this reign. |
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Afzal-ad-Daula served as the sixth Nizam of Hyderabad during a period when the Princely State retained the right to issue its own coinage under the Subsidiary Alliance with the British Crown — a privilege jealously guarded by successive Nizams as one of the few visible markers of autonomous rule. His reign coincided with the immediate aftermath of the 1857 uprising, during which Hyderabad's loyalty to the British proved strategically decisive and helped secure continued internal sovereignty, coinage rights included.