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1 Rupee - Ranjit Singh Amritsar mint
| Issuer | Sikh Empire |
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| Year | 1827-1846 |
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| Value | 1 Rupee |
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| Obverse script | Persian (Nastaliq) |
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| Reverse lettering | امرتسر |
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The Sikh Empire's rupees present a deliberate numismatic puzzle: Ranjit Singh refused to place his own name or image on the coinage, instead continuing to strike in the name of the Guru Gobind Singh and dating issues to the founding of the Khalsa in 1699. This policy held through his entire reign and beyond, which is precisely why the "1827–1846" window is an attribution based on stylistic and mint analysis rather than anything the coin itself declares. After Ranjit Singh's death in 1839, the empire fractured rapidly through a succession of short-lived rulers before British annexation in 1849, yet the coinage formula never changed.