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1 Paisa - Shah Alam II
| Issuer | Awadh |
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| Year | 1759-1806 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse lettering | سنه ٢٦ |
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Shah Alam II was Mughal emperor in name only for most of his reign — blinded by the Rohilla chief Ghulam Qadir in 1788, held under Maratha protection, and largely irrelevant to the actual governance of Awadh, which operated as a de facto independent state under its Nawabs. Coinage struck in his name by Awadh was a political formality, acknowledging nominal Mughal suzerainty while the Nawabs exercised real authority under an increasingly brittle arrangement with the East India Company.
KM#12 spans nearly five decades of issue, making die variation across the type considerable.