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1 Rupee - Shah Alam II [Asaf Jah II] Firoznagar
| Issuer | Princely state of Hyderabad |
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| Year | 1753 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Shah Alam II was the Mughal emperor, but the coin's association with Asaf Jah II — Nizam of Hyderabad — reflects the political fiction of the period: Hyderabad's rulers continued striking coinage in the emperor's name long after Mughal authority had effectively collapsed. Asaf Jah II consolidated Hyderabad's de facto independence through the 1750s and 1760s while maintaining the formal trappings of Mughal vassalage. Firoznagar was a mint town in the Nizam's territories, and its output during this period served a regional economy increasingly disconnected from Delhi's reach.