1 Rupee - Ahmad Shah Bahadur Bhakkar

Ahmad Shah Bahadur ascended the Mughal throne in 1748 following the death of Muhammad Shah, inheriting an empire already hollowed out by the Maratha incursions and the catastrophic Nader Shah invasion of 1739. His reign lasted just eight years before he was deposed and blinded by his own wazir, Imad ul-Mulk. The Bhakkar mint, operating on the Indus in what is now Sindh, was one of the more peripheral imperial facilities still functioning under nominal Mughal authority during this period of rapid fragmentation.

KM#446.7 distinguishes this piece by its mint identifier — Bhakkar issues from Ahmad Shah's reign are considerably scarcer than those from the core mints at Shahjahanabad or Surat.