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1 Pice - Shah Alam II
| Issuer | Bengal Presidency |
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| Year | 1796-1809 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | سنہ جلوس ٣٧ شاہ عالم بادشاہ (Translation: In the 37th year of the reign of Emperor Shah Alam) |
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| Reverse script | Bengali/Persian/Gujarati |
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Shah Alam II was Mughal emperor in name only by this period — blinded and effectively imprisoned in Delhi under Maratha protection, then British protection after 1803, he exercised no actual authority over the Bengal Presidency that struck coins in his name. The East India Company continued issuing pice under his regnal fiction well past his death in 1806, which explains the type's extended date range running three years beyond his reign.