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1 Mohur
| Issuer | Mewar, Princely state of |
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| Year | 1858 |
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| Composition | Gold |
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| Obverse script | Devanagari |
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| Reverse description | The central field features a two-line Devanagari inscription enclosed within a decorative lobed cartouche or floral medallion in relief, reading 'Dosti Londhan' (Friendship with London), a formulaic declaration of alliance between the Mewar state and the British Crown. The cartouche is surrounded by a border of radiating petals or foliate elements that fill the entire field to the rim, creating a densely decorated surface typical of Rajasthani princely gold coinage of the mid-nineteenth century. |
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Mewar was among the oldest of the Rajput princely states and retained the right to strike gold coinage well into the British period — a privilege many smaller states were denied outright under the Subsidiary Alliance system. The 1858 date is pointed: the year the East India Company was dissolved following the Sepoy Mutiny, transferring direct authority to the Crown. Mewar's continued gold issue in that exact year signals either deliberate assertion of autonomous prerogative or simply the inertia of a mint that answered to Udaipur, not Calcutta.