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1 Rupee - Qaisar Qandahar mint
| Issuer | Qandahar, City of |
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| Year | 1804 |
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| Value | 1 Rupee |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Mint | Qandahar Mint |
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Qandahar operated as a semi-autonomous mint city during the fracturing of Durrani Afghan power in the early nineteenth century, and coins struck here in this period reflect that instability — local governors asserting monetary authority as Kabul's grip weakened following the death of Zaman Shah and the fratricidal struggles among his successors. The "Qaisar" attribution on this type refers to a local honorific, not a separately governed polity, making the issuing authority somewhat contested among specialists.
KM#148 is thinly documented in auction records, which likely reflects genuine scarcity rather than collector indifference.