1 Rupee - Ahmad Shah Bahadur Qamarnagar/Karpa

Ahmad Shah Bahadur was the Mughal emperor in whose name Hyderabad's Nizams continued to strike coinage, maintaining the legal fiction of Mughal suzerainty long after Delhi had lost any meaningful authority over the Deccan. By 1753, Nizam ul-Mulk's successor Nasir Jung had already been assassinated and the state was mid-convulsion — this coin was struck during one of the most politically unstable periods in Hyderabad's eighteenth-century history. Qamarnagar was the mint name used at Aurangabad; Karpa likely denotes the regnal year notation under the Mughal calendar system.