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1 Paisa - Akbar Shah II [Ganpat Rao]
| Issuer | Baroda, Princely state of |
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| Year | 1848-1852 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Devanagari |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a crudely impressed design featuring a bold diagonal line dividing the field into two registers, a characteristic device found on Baroda copper coinage of the Ganpat Rao regency period. The upper register contains a simplified floral or symbolic motif in low relief, while the lower register bears fragmentary Arabic or Nagari characters accompanied by scattered pellets of varying sizes. The overall strike is weak and irregular, consistent with hand-hammered production at the Baroda mint, with the planchet edges showing characteristic flan-shearing marks. |
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Ganpat Rao served as de facto ruler of Baroda under the fiction of Mughal suzerainty, striking coins in the name of the long-powerless Akbar Shah II — a Delhi emperor who by this period held no meaningful authority and was entirely dependent on East India Company stipends. The practice of invoking the Mughal emperor's name on Baroda coinage was already an anachronism by the 1840s, a political courtesy extended well past its relevance. Akbar Shah II died in 1837, meaning coins issued through 1852 under his name were struck for a ruler already dead.