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1 Rupee - Alamgir II
| Issuer | Bombay Presidency |
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| Year | 1754-1755 |
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| Diameter | 22.5 mm |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Alamgir II was a Mughal emperor in name only — enthroned in 1754 by the vizier Imad ul-Mulk, he exercised virtually no independent authority and was murdered on Imad ul-Mulk's orders in 1759. The Bombay Presidency's issue in his regnal years reflects standard East India Company practice of striking coins in the reigning emperor's name to maintain the legal fiction of Mughal sovereignty, a commercial and diplomatic necessity when trading across markets that still recognized Mughal coinage as the dominant specie.
KM#103 pieces from this window are scarcer than their Surat Presidency counterparts from the same reign.