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1 Ashrafi - Mir Usman Ali Khan
| Issuer | Princely state of Hyderabad |
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| Year | 1948-1949 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | آصف جاه ١٣٦٧ (or ١٣٦٨) |
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| Reverse script | Persian |
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Mir Usman Ali Khan, the last Nizam of Hyderabad, struck this gold ashrafi during the final months before Indian military intervention — Operation Polo, September 1948 — forcibly ended Hyderabad's independence. The coins dated to this period were authorized while the Nizam was still negotiating, stalling, and appealing to the UN for recognition as a sovereign state. He never got it.
Hyderabad's own mint continued operating into 1949 under Indian administration during the transitional period, which accounts for the date range straddling the annexation.