1 Rupee - Shah Alam II

Shah Alam II died in 1806, yet the Bengal Presidency continued striking rupees in his name for decades afterward — a deliberate fiction maintained to ease acceptance among Indian merchants and money-changers who trusted the established type. This coin, struck thirteen years after the emperor's death, belongs to that long run of posthumous issues produced at the Calcutta Mint under East India Company authority.

The practice ended with the Coinage Act of 1835, which finally consolidated British Indian currency under a single, explicitly colonial standard.