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1 Tilla - Muhammad Yusuf Khan Sadozai Herat
| Issuer | Herat |
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| Year | 1856 |
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| Currency | Local Rupees (1747-1891) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Plain. |
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Herat in 1856 occupied an extraordinarily precarious position: Persia besieged and captured the city that year, triggering a British declaration of war against Iran — the Anglo-Persian War of 1856–57 — precisely because London viewed Persian control of Herat as a threat to the northwestern approach to India. Muhammad Yusuf Khan Sadozai was the last of the Sadozai rulers to hold the city before this upheaval dismantled the local power structure entirely. Coinage struck under his name represents one of the final gasps of Sadozai autonomous issue at Herat before external powers rendered local minting authority moot.