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1/8 Rupee - Ahmed Shah Bahadur Katak mint
| Issuer | Maratha Empire |
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| Year | 1754-1784 |
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| Value | 1/8 Rupee |
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| Obverse description | Hammered silver flan bearing a partial Persian legend in the name of the Mughal emperor Ahmed Shah Bahadur, rendered in calligraphic Nastaliq script. The inscription occupies the central field and is surrounded by a plain, irregular border characteristic of hammered coinage. Several small pellets are disposed across the field as decorative or spacing elements. A crescent symbol appears in the lower portion of the field. The overall design is typical of late Mughal-style fractional rupees struck at provincial mints under Maratha suzerainty. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ahmed Shah Bahadur was the Mughal emperor whose reign (1748–1754) these coins nominally commemorated, yet the Marathas continued striking his regnal types at Katak long after his deposition — a common practice of issuing frozen-date or frozen-reign coinage to maintain commercial familiarity in newly controlled territories. Katak, the old capital of Odisha, fell to Maratha control in 1751 following their decisive campaigns against the Nawab of Bengal.
The thirty-year production window at this mint reflects how thoroughly the Marathas embedded themselves in Odisha's fiscal administration before British intervention ended their hold on the region in 1803.