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1 Takka - Shah Alam II Bharatpur
| Issuer | Bharatpur, Princely state of |
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| Year | 1762-1806 |
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| Thickness | 7.75 mm |
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| Reverse description | Reverse displays a multi-line Persian or Nagari inscription occupying the upper portion of the flan, separated by a horizontal rule from a lower register featuring a stylised katar (push dagger) symbol, a dynastic emblem of the Bharatpur Jat rulers. The overall design is crudely executed in the hammered tradition, with irregular edges and uneven strike depth characteristic of this issue. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Bharatpur's coinage under Shah Alam II's nominal suzerainty reflects the political fiction of late Mughal authority — the Jat rulers of Bharatpur struck in the emperor's name while operating in practice as fully independent actors. By the 1770s, Shah Alam II had been blinded and confined, exercising no real power over any mint that claimed his name. The Bharatpur Jats had already repelled multiple Mughal and Maratha incursions, and their coinage was a political statement of legitimacy rather than submission.