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1 Rupee - Sadiq Muhammad Khan V
| Issuer | Bahawalpur, Princely state of |
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| Year | 1925 |
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| Value | 1 Rupee |
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| Obverse description | Central field dominated by an elaborate tughra (royal cipher) of Nawab Sadiq Muhammad Khan V rendered in ornate calligraphic style. The AH date 1343 appears below the tughra in Arabic numerals. A crescent and star device is positioned in the upper right of the field. The entire design is surrounded by a border of evenly spaced six-pointed stars. |
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| Mintage | 1343 (1925) |
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Bahawalpur's silver rupee coinage was struck under treaty arrangements that permitted the princely state to maintain its own mint — a privilege that became increasingly rare as the British Raj tightened monetary integration across the subcontinent. Sadiq Muhammad Khan V ruled the state from 1907 until Partition in 1947, and issues from the mid-1920s represent the mature phase of his reign, before the administrative pressures of the late colonial period began to erode the autonomy of smaller princely mints.
KM#14 is among the more obtainable of the Bahawalpur rupee types, though surviving examples in better grades are understated in the market relative to their actual scarcity.