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1 Rupee - Shah Alam II Bareli mint
| Issuer | Awadh |
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| Year | 1775-1779 |
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| Value | 1 Rupee |
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| Obverse lettering | سکه مبارک شاه عالم بهادر بادشاه غازی سایه فضل اله |
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| Mintage | 1189 (1775) - RY#17 - 1193 (1779) - RY#20 - 1193 (1779) - RY#21 - |
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Shah Alam II was Mughal emperor in name only by the 1770s — effectively a pensioner of whichever regional power held Delhi at the moment. Awadh's Nawabs struck rupees in his name as a matter of political legitimacy, not imperial loyalty. The Bareli mint operated under Rohilkhand's complex jurisdictional history; the region had been conquered by Awadh's Shuja-ud-Daula with British East India Company assistance in 1774, bringing its mints into the Awadhi monetary orbit almost immediately before this issue's production window opens.