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1 Rupee - Bhonsla Rajas Jalaun mint

Issuer Maratha Empire
Year 1807-1810
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Currency Rupee (1674-1818)
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Obverse lettering سکه مبارک شاه عالم بهادر
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Edge Plain
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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.

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