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1 Rupee - Shah Alam II Jodhpur Feudatory Kuchaman
| Issuer | Jodhpur-Kuchaman Feudatory |
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| Year | 1789 |
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| Thickness | 4 mm |
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| Obverse description | Hammered silver rupee struck in the name of the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II, displaying bold Arabic-script legends across the field arranged in the characteristic multi-line format of late Mughal feudatory coinage. The inscription identifies the regnal authority and is surrounded by decorative pellet ornaments distributed throughout the field. The die is square-framed within a circular flan, with the lettering boldly raised against a darkened recessed background. The Hijri date 1203 appears prominently within the legend. The overall execution is characteristic of provincial hammered coinage with irregular flan edges typical of the Kuchaman mint. |
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| Obverse lettering | ١٢٠٣ |
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Kuchaman was a thikana — a revenue-assigned estate — within the Marwar dominion, and its feudatory coinage operated under the nominal sanction of the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II, whose name appeared on issues long after he had lost any meaningful control over the subcontinent. By 1789, Shah Alam had already been blinded and effectively held captive by Ghulam Qadir; invoking his authority on coin was pure legal fiction, a convention that Rajput feudatories maintained well into the nineteenth century to preserve the formal legitimacy of their minting rights.