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Fanam In the name of Alamgir II
| Issuer | Bikanir, Princely state of |
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| Year | 1754-1800 |
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| Value | 1 Fanam (1/8) |
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| Reverse description | Plain, uniface reverse presenting a smooth, convex surface entirely devoid of design or inscription, characteristic of small hammered gold fanam coinage of the Rajput princely states. The flan exhibits the natural domed profile resulting from the hammering process, with no deliberate decorative or textual elements. |
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| Mintage | ND (1754-1800) |
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Bikaner's fanams issued in the name of Alamgir II continued well past that emperor's assassination in 1759, a practice common among Rajput states that retained Mughal imperial nomenclature on coinage long after any meaningful Mughal authority had dissolved. The fiction of imperial sanction was politically useful, even when the emperor named on the coin had been dead for decades.