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1 Paisa - Alamgir II, Sidi Ibrahim Khan III
| Issuer | Princely state of Janjira (Indian princely states) |
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| Year | 1790-1792 |
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| Weight | 5.67 g |
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| Reverse description | Hammered reverse displaying a three-line Persian nastaliq legend across the field, reading 'Zarb Janjira / Sana 1204 (or 1205 or 1206) / Ibrahim Khan', identifying the mint as Janjira, the regnal year in the Hijri calendar corresponding to 1790, 1791, or 1792 CE, and the issuing nawab Sidi Ibrahim Khan III. The lettering is boldly struck but unevenly distributed across the flan, consistent with hand-hammered production. Numerals appear in Eastern Arabic script. The overall style reflects the provincial workshop tradition of the Konkan coast princely mints. |
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| Edge | Rough |
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Janjira was one of the few Indian princely states ruled by Sidis — descendants of East African origin, many brought to the subcontinent as enslaved soldiers or sailors who rose through Mughal naval service to become independent rulers of a virtually impregnable island fortress off the Konkan coast. The state's coins invoked Mughal imperial authority long after that authority had effectively collapsed, a political fiction maintained well into the late eighteenth century.
Alamgir II was murdered in 1759, making his name on coins struck in the 1790s a deliberate anachronism — regnal citation as legitimizing formula rather than historical record.