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1 Rupee - Ajit Singh Bajrangarh, Gwalior feudatory
| Issuer | Gwalior, Princely state of |
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| Year | 1819-1820 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | Entire reverse field occupied by a multi-line Nagari legend recording the regnal year of Ajit Singh of Bajrangarh, arranged in the compact, space-filling style characteristic of hammered feudatory rupees of the Gwalior region. The inscription denotes the regal year (RY 21 or RY 22 corresponding to 1819 or 1820 respectively) within a plain, unbordered field. The flan is irregularly shaped with slightly uneven edges, consistent with hand-struck coinage of the period. |
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| Mintage | ND (1819) - RY#21 - ND (1820) - RY#22 - |
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Bajrangarh was a small feudatory within the Gwalior state, one of dozens of semi-autonomous holdings whose local chiefs retained minting rights under the loose suzerainty of the Scindias. Ajit Singh's issues date to a period when the Third Anglo-Maratha War had just concluded, leaving the Gwalior state formally subordinate to the East India Company by treaty in 1818 — which makes any feudatory coinage struck immediately after that settlement a quietly political act, asserting local prerogative at precisely the moment it was becoming precarious.