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Mohur - Shah Alam II [Zabita Khan]
| Issuer | Rohilkhand, Princely state of |
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| Year | 1762-1773 |
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| Currency | Rupee |
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| Obverse description | Hammered gold flan bearing bold Nasta'liq calligraphic legends in the central field, arranged in multiple registers separated by horizontal line borders. The inscription, rendered in deeply struck, flowing script, occupies virtually the entire obverse surface, filling the field to the rim. Characteristic pellet ornaments are scattered between the lines of text, serving as diacritical and decorative elements. The style is consistent with late Mughal hammered coinage struck in the name of Shah Alam II. |
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| Reverse description | Hammered gold flan with multi-register Nasta'liq calligraphic legend filling the entire reverse field, framed by horizontal line borders above and below the central inscription. The lower register contains the regnal year rendered in Arabic numerals, accompanied by scattered pellet ornaments throughout the field. The mint name appears within the marginal legend at the periphery, consistent with Rohilkhand issues struck under Zabita Khan's authority in the name of the Mughal emperor. |
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Shah Alam II spent much of his reign as a puppet — first of the Marathas, then the British — but in the early 1760s a brief window opened in which regional commanders exercised genuine autonomous authority under the nominal Mughal umbrella. Zabita Khan, the Rohilla Afghan chief who controlled much of the Doab, struck coinage in Shah Alam's name during precisely this period, a common fiction of the era in which the emperor's name conferred legitimacy while actual power sat elsewhere entirely.
The Rohilla confederacy was broken by the 1774 invasion of Rohilkhand — a campaign the Nawab of Awadh prosecuted with British troops — which renders this issue's closing date grimly precise.