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1 Rupee - Victoria
| Issuer | Bindraban, Princely state of |
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| Year | 1858-1859 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Devanagari |
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| Mint | Bindraban Mint |
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Bindraban was a minor taluqdari estate in the North-Western Provinces, and its coinage rights during the twilight of Mughal nominal authority were already legally ambiguous before the Crown formally absorbed paramountcy following the 1857 uprising. Striking a rupee in Victoria's name in 1858–59 was itself a political act — the estate was aligning visibly with the new order at precisely the moment the East India Company was dissolved and direct Crown rule proclaimed.
Billon at this weight suggests a debased local minting tradition rather than conformity with the imperial rupee standard.