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1 Rupee - Akbar Shah II [Daulat Rao]
| Issuer | Gwalior, Princely state of |
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| Year | 1813-1815 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is entirely occupied by a multi-line Persian-script legend in Nasta'liq calligraphy, arranged in three horizontal bands across the field and separated by double ruled lines. The inscription records the name and titles of the Mughal emperor Muhammad Akbar II, with the Hijri regnal year (AH 1228) appearing in the uppermost register. The flan is slightly irregular in outline, consistent with hand-hammered production, and the legends fill the coin's surface to the very edge without a formal border. |
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| Mintage | 1228 (1813) - Year 10 - 1228 (1813) - Year 11 - 1228 (1813) - Year 12 - 1228 (1813) - Year 13 - 1228 (1813) - Year 14 - 1228 (1813) - Year 15 - 1228 (1813) - Year 16 - 1228 (1813) - Year 17 - 1228 (1813) - Year 18 - 1228 (1813) - Year 19 - 1228 (1813) - Year 20 - 1228 (1813) - Year 21 - 1228 (1813) - Year 22 - 1228 (1813) - Year 27 - 1228 (1813) - Year 28 - 1228 (1813) - Year 7 - 1228 (1813) - Year 8 - 1228 (1813) - Year 9 - 1230 (1815) - - |
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Gwalior's coinage during this period occupies a peculiar administrative limbo. Daulat Rao Scindia had signed the Treaty of Surji-Anjangaon with the British in 1803, ceding significant territory and accepting a Subsidiary Force, yet retained enough nominal independence to strike rupees in the name of the Mughal emperor — Akbar Shah II, who himself held little more than ceremonial authority in Delhi after Wellesley's campaigns gutted what remained of Maratha power.
KM#201 is a product of that fiction: a feudatory minting coins invoking an emperor who ruled nothing, issued from a state that answered increasingly to Calcutta.