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1 Rupee - Ahmad Shah Bahadur Farrukhabad mint
| Issuer | Mughal Empire |
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| Year | 1748-1754 |
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| Weight | 11.02 g |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1161 (1748) - RY#1 - 1162 (1749) - RY#1 - 1162 (1749) - RY#2 - 1163 (1750) - RY#2 - 1165 (1752) - RY#5 - 1166 (1753) - RY#5 - 1166 (1753) - RY#6 - 1167 (1754) - RY#6 - 1167 (1754) - RY#7 - |
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Ahmad Shah Bahadur inherited the Mughal throne in 1748 following the death of Muhammad Shah, but the empire he ruled was a shadow of its former self — Nadir Shah's 1739 sack of Delhi had gutted the treasury and shattered imperial prestige permanently. The Farrukhabad mint, operating under the nominal authority of the Bangash Nawabs, was one of dozens of regional mints that continued striking in the emperor's name while effectively functioning as instruments of local power. The fiction of Mughal suzerainty was maintained on the coinage long after it had ceased to mean anything militarily or administratively.
Ahmad Shah was deposed and blinded in 1754 by the wazir Imad ul-Mulk, which defines the hard close of this type's production window.