1 Ashrafi - Brijis Qadr Najibabad mint

Brijis Qadr was installed as King of Awadh in July 1857 by his mother, the Begum Hazrat Mahal, following the outbreak of the Sepoy Mutiny and the British annexation of the kingdom the previous year. He was ten years old. The Najibabad mint struck in his name as an act of political assertion — coinage being among the most direct declarations of sovereign authority available to a court fighting for its survival.

By the end of 1858, British forces had suppressed the rebellion across Awadh. Brijis Qadr fled with his mother to Nepal, where he remained in exile for decades. Issues from Najibabad in his name represent a window of perhaps eighteen months.