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1 Rupee - Muhammad Akbar II [Ganpat Rao]
| Issuer | Baroda, Princely state of |
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| Year | 1848-1856 |
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| Reference(s) | C#47 |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ganpat Rao ruled Baroda as regent during a period of deepening British interference in princely state finances, and coins struck in his name — nominally under the suzerainty of the Mughal emperor Muhammad Akbar II — reflect the last gasps of a dual-authority fiction the East India Company was actively dismantling. Akbar II had already been stripped of any real imperial power by the time this type was being minted; his name on the coin was ceremonial obligation, not political reality.
Baroda came under a formal Residency arrangement that gave the British effective oversight of its treasury. The rupee coinage of this period was among the last struck before British-controlled currency reform swept through the remaining princely mints after 1858.