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1 Rupee - Shah Alam II Indore Feudatory - Sironj
| Issuer | Indore-Sironj Feudatory |
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| Year | 1759-1798 |
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| Value | 1 Rupee |
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| Obverse description | Hammered silver flan bearing two lines of Nastaliq calligraphy divided by a horizontal ruled line across the field. The upper legend reads the royal epithet 'Sikka Mubarak Badshah Ghazi' and the lower line names the emperor 'Shah Alam Bahadur', all executed in flowing Persian script characteristic of late Mughal imperial coinage. The AH regnal date appears within the lower register. The overall style follows the standard Mughal rupee format as adopted by the Indore-Sironj feudatory issuing authority in the name of the Mughal emperor. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Shah Alam II reigned nominally as Mughal emperor for nearly four decades, yet spent much of that time as a political prisoner, a pensioner of the Marathas, or a blind figurehead after Ahmad Shah Durrani's forces devastated Delhi in 1788. Feudatory issues struck in his name — including those from the Indore-administered Sironj tract — reflect less any imperial authority he exercised than the Maratha practice of legitimizing regional coinage through a convenient but powerless imperial cipher.
Sironj, a market town in present-day Madhya Pradesh, sat on trade routes that made local silver coinage practically necessary.