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1 Rupee - Ahmad Shah
| Issuer | Afghanistan |
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| Year | 1757 |
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| Currency | Local Rupees (1747-1891) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a multi-line Persian-script inscription in Nasta'liq calligraphy arranged diagonally across the field, incorporating the epithet 'Dar al-Aman' (Abode of Security), a characteristic addition to the coinage of Ahmad Shah Durrani. Additional legends recording the mint name and regnal year in the Hijri calendar are present. The flan is irregular and the strike typical of hammered silver rupees of this period. |
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Ahmad Shah Durrani struck this rupee in the year corresponding to 1757 during the height of Durrani imperial expansion — the same year he sacked Delhi for the third time and decisively defeated the Maratha Confederacy at Panipat in 1761 was still ahead of him. His coinage system borrowed heavily from Mughal conventions, both in weight standard and format, a deliberate political choice to assert legitimacy across a population accustomed to Mughal monetary authority. Production was distributed across multiple mints in the empire, and attribution of individual pieces to specific mint cities remains difficult without clear mint marks.