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1 Rupee - Bhonsla Rajas Jalaun mint
| Issuer | Maratha Empire |
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| Year | 1807-1810 |
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| Value | 1 Rupee |
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| Reverse description | Reverse field carries multi-line Persian inscriptions recording the mint name Jalaun (ضرب جالون) and the regnal year of Shah Alam II. The legends are arranged in three registers separated by a bold horizontal bar, with the numeral indicating the regnal year positioned in the lower field. The script is executed in the angular, robust style typical of hammered provincial rupees of this period, with visible die irregularities consistent with hand-struck coinage. |
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| Reverse lettering | سنه جلوس میمنت مانوس ضرب جالون ٥ |
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The Bhonsla clan held Nagpur as their seat but controlled a sprawling territory that included subsidiary mints operating under varying degrees of autonomy. Jalaun, situated in what is now Uttar Pradesh, functioned as one such peripheral mint during the period when Maratha power was entering terminal decline — the Second Anglo-Maratha War had ended in 1803, stripping the confederacy of considerable territory and political leverage. These years of 1807–1810 fall squarely in the interregnum of diminished sovereignty, when local minting continued largely through inertia rather than imperial strength.
KM#333 is among the less documented Bhonsla issues, and genuine attribution to Jalaun rather than a nearby mint requires careful examination of the nagari mint mark.