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1 Paisa - Ahmad Shah [Raghuji III] Nagpur
| Issuer | Maratha Empire |
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| Year | 1825-1854 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Crude Arabic legend occupying the central field, arranged in two horizontal lines separated by a plain horizontal band, set within a roughly circular, irregularly shaped flan. The inscription, characteristic of the Nagpur Bhonsle mint style, is boldly struck in relief with heavily worn detail typical of hammered copper issues of this period. The coin exhibits an uneven surface with areas of verdigris consistent with prolonged circulation. |
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| Obverse lettering | احمد شاه |
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Nagpur's copper paisas of this period occupy a peculiar position in Maratha numismatics: struck in the name of the Mughal emperor Ahmad Shah II as a nominal fiction long after Mughal authority had collapsed, while actual power in Nagpur rested with the Bhonsle raja Raghuji III. The practice of retaining a Mughal regnal name on provincial coinage had become administrative habit rather than political reality.
Raghuji III ruled under increasing British pressure; the British Resident at Nagpur effectively controlled policy for much of his reign, and the kingdom was annexed outright in 1853 under the Doctrine of Lapse.