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1 Rupee - Zaman Shah
| Issuer | Afghanistan |
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| Year | 1793-1798 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Central field bearing the first couplet of a Persian poetic inscription in bold Naskh-style Arabic calligraphy, occupying the majority of the flan. The text is arranged in two or three lines within a decorative cartouche framed by floral and foliate scroll-work borders. The outer periphery features a beaded or dotted border partially visible along the coin's irregular edge. The die-work is characteristic of Durrani-period hand-struck coinage, exhibiting deep, confident engraving against a flat field. |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Zaman Shah's reign was consumed almost entirely by fratricidal warfare — he spent most of it either suppressing brothers or being deposed by them, losing his throne to Mahmud in 1801 and subsequently his eyes to a hot iron. Coinage from his reign was struck across multiple mints including Kabul, Peshawar, and Kashmir, each adding its own mint name and regnal year to the flan, which makes attribution a genuine exercise in reading compressed Persian script rather than simply matching a type.
The Durrani rupee standard he inherited from Ahmad Shah held reasonably steady in weight through this period, though Kashmir mint output tends to show slightly more variation in fabric.