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1 Rupee - Shah Alam II Ajmer mint
| Issuer | Gwalior, Princely state of |
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| Year | 1782-1789 |
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| Value | 1 Rupee |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Mintage | 1196 (1782) - RY#24 - 1197 (1783) - RY#24 - 1198 (1784) - RY#24 - 1200 (1786) - RY#26 - 1202 (1788) - RY#31 - 1203 (1789) - RY#31 - |
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Shah Alam II spent much of his reign as a pensioner of whoever held Delhi at the time — the Marathas, the British, various Afghan factions — which makes coins struck in his name by Gwalior a political statement as much as a monetary instrument. The Scindia rulers of Gwalior issued rupees in his name to assert legitimacy through association with the Mughal emperor, even as that emperor's actual authority had long since collapsed. The Ajmer mint attribution is notable; Ajmer changed hands repeatedly in this period and its mint output was often co-opted by regional powers for precisely this kind of proxy legitimacy.