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Paisa - Mahadaji Shinde
| Issuer | Gwalior, Princely state of |
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| Year | 1783 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field dominated by a diagonal sabre or sword traversing the flan horizontally, with a six-pointed star and an eight-pointed star visible in the lower portion of the field. A crescent or curved device appears in the upper register above the blade. The design elements are characteristic of the Maratha Gwalior state coinage under Mahadaji Shinde, rendered in a bold, somewhat crude hammered style typical of late 18th-century Indian copper issues. |
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| Mintage | 1840 (1783) |
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Mahadaji Shinde — Scindia — was at the height of his political power in 1783, having recently reasserted Maratha dominance in northern India and taken effective control of the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II as a dependent. Coins struck under his authority at Gwalior during this period reflect that ambiguity: nominally issued within a Mughal framework, yet products of a Maratha warlord who held more real power than the emperor whose formulas still echoed in the calligraphy.
Gwalior's copper issues of this period are frequently found poorly centered, a consequence of small local workshops operating without the infrastructural discipline of imperial mints.