1/4 Rupee - Ahmed Shah Bahadur Katak mint

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背面描述	Central field bears bold Persian legends in Naskh script identifying the Katak (Cuttack) mint, rendered in a cursive hand with deeply struck strokes. The inscription fills the flan in a compressed, informal layout characteristic of Maratha hammered silver coinage. A single pellet is visible in the lower central field as a mint or die marker. The flan is irregular and slightly dumpy, consistent with hand-struck production at a provincial mint.
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附加信息	Ahmed Shah Bahadur, the Mughal emperor nominally depicted on this coin, was by the 1750s a ruler in name only — blinded and imprisoned by his own wazir, Imad ul-Mulk, in 1757. The Marathas exploited precisely this imperial vacuum, issuing coins in his name across territories they militarily controlled as a mechanism of administrative legitimacy. Katak, the old Odishan capital on the Mahanadi, was one such mint operating under Maratha suzerainty following their consolidation of Orissa. The thirty-year striking window for this type reflects continuous Maratha use of a frozen regal year, a common practice that renders individual date attribution within the series essentially impossible without die study.

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