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1 Rupee - Ahmad Shah Bahadur Bareli mint
| Issuer | Mughal Empire |
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| Year | 1748-1754 |
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| Value | 1 Rupee |
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| Obverse description | Hammered silver flan bearing a two-line Persian legend in bold naskh calligraphy divided by a horizontal line across the coin's field. The upper register reads 'سکه مبارک بادشاه غازی' (Sikka Mubarak Badshah Ghazi — the auspicious coin of the warrior king), while the lower register bears the royal name 'احمد شاه بهادر' (Ahmad Shah Bahadur). Decorative floral or pellet ornaments are visible in the field. The inscription fills the flan to its edges in typical Mughal hammered rupee style, with no portraiture. |
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| Obverse lettering | سکه مبارک بادشاه غازی احمد شاه بهادر |
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Ahmad Shah Bahadur inherited the Mughal throne in 1748 following the assassination of his father Muhammad Shah, acceding to an empire already hollowed out by Nader Shah's 1739 sack of Delhi. His six-year reign was dominated by the rising Maratha Confederacy and accelerating provincial fragmentation, with the Rohilla Afghans effectively controlling the Bareilly region where this coin was struck. The Bareli mint operated under those fractious conditions — nominally imperial, practically regional.
Ahmad Shah was deposed and blinded in 1754 by the vizier Imad-ul-Mulk, ending coinage in his name.