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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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| Thickness | 3.2 mm |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse lettering | جلوس ميمنت مانوس ١٧ |
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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.