Rupee - Adel Afshar Type A, Herat

Adel Shah's reign lasted roughly a year. He seized power following Nader Shah's assassination in June 1747, but factional violence within the Afsharid house was immediate and relentless, and he was blinded and deposed by late 1748. Herat, as a major mint city in the eastern reaches of the empire, continued striking in his name during this window — but the political chaos makes cleanly attributable examples from this mint genuinely uncommon.

The Type A designation distinguishes this issue from later die arrangements adopted as the mint adapted to successive claimants in rapid succession.