1 Rupee - Shah Alam II Akbarabad mint

Shah Alam II's reign was one of sustained humiliation. Defeated by the British at Buxar in 1764, he spent years as a pensioner of the East India Company before briefly allying with the Marathas, during which time he was blinded by the Afghan chieftain Ghulam Qadir in 1788. Coins struck in his name continued rolling out of imperial mints across this entire period regardless — the rupee as an administrative object outlasted any practical authority behind it.

The Akbarabad mint operated at Agra, the old Mughal heartland. By the late eighteenth century, many rupees bearing his regnal titles were effectively issued under Maratha or Company supervision.