1 Rupee - Nader Afshar Ahmadabad mint

Struck in the immediate aftermath of Nader Shah's catastrophic sack of Delhi in March 1739, this rupee reflects the extraordinary administrative consequence of that campaign. Having looted an estimated 700 million rupees in treasure from the Mughal court — including the Peacock Throne and the Koh-i-Noor — Nader returned to Iran and suspended taxation on his own subjects for three years. The Ahmadabad mint, a major Mughal facility he now controlled, was pressed into producing coinage on Iranian authority from Indian silver that had not left the subcontinent at all.