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1 Paisa - Shah Alam II Bindraban
| Issuer | Bindraban, Princely state of |
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| Year | 1797-1798 |
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| Weight | 7.73 g |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
| Reverse lettering | ١٢١x |
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Bindraban — also spelled Vrindavan — was a small princely state in the Mathura region, its political identity inseparable from the town's status as a major Vaishnava pilgrimage site. Shah Alam II, the Mughal emperor in whose name this paisa was struck, had by this point been effectively powerless for decades, his authority a legal fiction maintained by regional rulers who needed the nominal legitimacy his name provided on coinage. The practice cost them nothing and lent a veneer of imperial sanction to local issues.
KM#5 is among the scarcer Bindraban copper types, the state's minting activity being both limited in scope and poorly documented in surviving records.