Mohur - Shah Alam II [Zabita Khan]

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.