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1 Mohur - Daulat Rao
| Issuer | Princely state of Gwalior (Indian princely states) |
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| Year | 1794 |
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| Weight | 11.34 g |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays multi-line Persian Nastaliq legends filling the entire field, divided into upper and lower registers by a ruled horizontal line. The upper portion bears the name of Daulat Rao Sindhia and references to the Gwalior state, while the lower register contains the frozen Hijri date AH 1130 and regnal year 2, accompanied by scattered pellet ornaments in the field. The bold, fluid calligraphic strokes are characteristic of Maratha-Mughal hammered gold coinage of the late eighteenth century. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Daulat Rao Sindhia inherited Gwalior in 1794 at roughly fourteen years old, following the assassination of his predecessor Madhoji Sindhia — the brilliant Maratha general who had effectively controlled the Mughal emperor as a puppet. Daulat Rao's early reign coincided with the rapid deterioration of Maratha confederacy unity, culminating in the Second Anglo-Maratha War of 1803, after which Gwalior ceded significant territories to the East India Company under the Treaty of Surji-Anjangaon.
Mohurs of this early regnal period were struck to the Mughal weight standard that Maratha states had inherited and continued using well into British paramountcy.