1 Rupee - Abdur Rahman

Abdur Rahman Khan spent much of his reign — 1880 to 1901 — consolidating central authority over a country the British and Russians were using as a buffer, each pressuring him from opposite directions. His coinage was part of that consolidation: regularized weights and fineness helped assert fiscal control over a fragmented tribal economy that had long operated on whatever silver was locally available.

KM#818 is known with date variants across the lunar calendar years it was struck, and attribution can require careful reading of the regnal year alongside the Hijri date.