1 Rupee - Shah Alam II Mughal Style

Kishangarh was among the smaller Rajput states that continued invoking the Mughal emperor's name on coinage long after Delhi had ceased to function as any meaningful imperial center. By the 1780s, Shah Alam II had been blinded and effectively imprisoned by Ghulam Qadir, his authority a fiction maintained by tradition rather than political reality. Local mints like Kishangarh persisted with the Mughal regal formula partly from convention, partly because familiar coin types circulated more readily in regional bazaars than novel ones.

The C#10.2c designation distinguishes this by mint mark placement, a detail that separates Kishangarh output from the numerous contemporaneous issues struck by neighboring states under the same imperial fiction.