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1 Rupee - Ranjit Singh Amritsar mint
| Issuer | Sikh Empire |
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| Year | 1818-1823 |
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| Currency | Rupee (1711-1849) |
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| Obverse script | Persian (Nastaliq) |
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| Reverse script | Persian (Nastaliq) |
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Ranjit Singh's coinage is a studied exercise in deliberate ambiguity — he ruled as Maharaja but struck coins bearing no royal name, instead invoking the Nanakshahi formula attributing sovereignty to the Gurus and the Khalsa. This was politically calculated: asserting personal rule would have alienated the Sikh sardars whose military loyalty held the empire together. The Amritsar mint was the senior of his mints, operating from the sacred city itself, which carried its own theological weight.
KM#84 spans the years immediately following his consolidation of the Punjab and his 1818 capture of Multan.