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1 Rupee - Dost Muhammad 1st Reign; in name of Payinda Khan
| Issuer | Emirate of Afghanistan (Afghanistan) |
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| Year | 1834 |
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| Currency | Local Rupees (1747-1891) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Dost Muhammad Khan's first reign over Kabul was far from secure in 1834 — he was simultaneously fending off Sikh encroachment from the east under Ranjit Singh and suppressing rival Barakzai sardars within his own family. The attribution to Payinda Khan, his father and founder of the Barakzai dynasty who had been dead since 1799, was a deliberate legitimizing gesture: coins struck in an ancestor's name were a common Durrani-era convention used to signal dynastic continuity when political authority was contested. Dost Muhammad had not yet proclaimed himself Amir; that title came only in 1836.