1 Rupee Muhammad Bahadur Shah II Kotah

Kotah's rupees struck under the nominal authority of Bahadur Shah II present one of the more politically awkward coinages of the late Mughal period. By 1837, the Mughal emperor's name carried almost no actual sovereign weight — the British East India Company controlled the subcontinent's finances and military, while Bahadur Shah II himself was essentially a pensioned figurehead in Delhi. Kotah, a Rajput state under Company suzerainty, continued issuing in his name purely by convention.

The series ends abruptly at 1857 — the year of the Uprising, after which Bahadur Shah II was tried, exiled to Rangoon, and his name removed from coinage across the subcontinent.