1 Rupee - Victoria [Muhammad Ibrahim Ali Khan]

Tonk was the only Princely State in Rajputana with a Muslim ruling dynasty, the Nawabs having been granted the territory by the Peshwa in the early nineteenth century following Amir Khan's service as a mercenary commander — a career that included supplying troops to multiple competing powers simultaneously. Muhammad Ibrahim Ali Khan ruled from 1867 to 1930, and this issue dates to the transitional period when the Crown's standardization pressures were beginning to erode the autonomy of Indian state mints. The dual-authority nature of the piece, acknowledging both Victoria and the Nawab, reflects the precise hierarchy the Crown enforced after 1858.