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1 Rupee - Sardul Singh / Bahadur Shah Regal Style
| Issuer | Kishangarh Mint |
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| Year | 1880-1887 |
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| Reference(s) | Y#2b, Zeno cat#291706, Y#2 |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Hammered reverse field filled entirely with Arabic-script legends in Nastaliq calligraphy, arranged in sweeping diagonal registers across the flan. The inscription records the auspicious coinage struck during the reign under the suzerainty of the illustrious Queen Victoria, Kaiser-i-Hind, with the regnal date given as the year 1880 in Hindu-Arabic numerals (سنه ۱۸۸۰). The date numerals are prominently placed in the upper portion of the field and are clearly legible. Decorative floral or foliate motifs occupy portions of the lower field, consistent with the artistic conventions of Kishangarh princely coinage. The overall composition reflects the Indo-Mughal epigraphic tradition adapted to acknowledge British imperial paramountcy. |
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Kishangarh, a small Rajput princely state in what is now Rajasthan, retained the right to strike its own coinage well into the British period — a privilege many neighboring states had already surrendered. This issue blends two authorities: the regal style invokes Bahadur Shah II, the last Mughal emperor deposed after 1857, while Sardul Singh ruled Kishangarh from 1879 until his death in 1900. The pairing was largely formulaic by this point, a survival of Mughal minting convention that persisted decades after the empire it referenced had ceased to exist.