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1 Rupee - Sir Sadiq Mohammed Khan V Abbasi
| Issuer | Bahawalpur, Princely state of |
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| Year | 1924 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse lettering | ضرب بهاولپور |
| Edge | Plain. |
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Bahawalpur was one of the largest princely states in British India, and Sir Sadiq Mohammed Khan V — who ruled from 1907 until accession to Pakistan in 1947 — was unusual among contemporary princes in maintaining an active local coinage well into the twentieth century. Most princely states had abandoned silver issues by the 1920s under pressure from the British Indian monetary apparatus. That Bahawalpur struck this rupee in 1924 suggests a deliberate assertion of the Nawab's remaining prerogatives, however ceremonial they had become by that point.