1 Rupee - Shah Alam II Mughal Style

Kishangarh's rupees of this period were struck under the fiction of Mughal imperial authority — the coin names Shah Alam II as issuer even though by the 1780s the emperor in Delhi was effectively a pensioner of the Marathas, his real sovereignty long since dissolved. Princely states across Rajputana maintained this convention for decades after it ceased to reflect any political reality, partly to legitimize local coinage and partly because British paramountcy had not yet standardized the currency landscape into something more honest.

The Zeno catalogued specimen (291452) provides the primary photographic reference for this variety under C#10.2a.