1 Rupee - Taimur Shah Peshawar Mint

Taimur Shah inherited a fractured empire from his father Ahmad Shah Durrani and spent much of his reign attempting to hold Afghanistan together against internal revolts and Sikh encroachment in the Punjab. The Peshawar mint was strategically critical — not merely convenient — as Peshawar served as the Durrani winter capital, making its coinage output a direct expression of royal authority in the most contested frontier of the empire.

The sixteen-year span of this issue reflects continuous but troubled administration rather than stability. By the late 1780s, Sikh raiding parties under Ranjit Singh's predecessors were already disrupting the eastern trade routes that gave Peshawar mint its silver supply.