1 Rupee - Shah Alam II

Shah Alam II died in 1806, yet the Bombay Presidency continued striking rupees in his name for nearly two more decades under the "frozen date" convention — a deliberate fiction maintained to ease acceptance among Indian merchants and money-changers who trusted the established type. The East India Company understood that currency credibility in local bazaars depended more on familiar iconography than on accurate regnal attribution.

The Pridmore references suggest minor die varieties exist within this issue, likely reflecting multiple working dies in simultaneous use at the Bombay mint.