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1 Rupee - Shah Bahadur Hyderabad Naryanpet Feudatory
| Issuer | Princely state of Hyderabad |
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| Year | 1784 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a bold multi-line Nasta'liq Arabic-script legend divided into two registers by a horizontal rule characteristic of Mughal-style hammered rupees. The upper register occupies the greater portion of the flan and carries the principal reverse inscription in large, sweeping calligraphic strokes. The lower register, narrower in proportion, contains subsidiary text including mint and regnal year references. Scattered pellet and lozenge ornaments are visible in the field, serving as decorative fillers in the spaces between letterforms. The flan is irregular and slightly cupped, consistent with hand-hammered production at a feudatory mint. |
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| Mint | Dilshadabad Mint (Naryanpet) |
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Naryanpet was one of the smaller feudatory estates subordinate to the Nizam of Hyderabad, and its coinage issues from this period remain poorly documented — the KM unlisted status here is genuine obscurity, not a cataloging gap. Shah Bahadur as a regnal name places this issue within a Mughal-derived naming convention common across the Deccan feudatories, where local chiefs continued invoking Mughal authority on coinage long after that authority had effectively collapsed. The 1784 date corresponds to a period of intense political turbulence: Hyderabad was navigating its relationship with both the retreating Mughal court and an increasingly assertive East India Company.