Rupee - Adel Afshar Type C, Mashhad mint

Adel Shah's reign lasted roughly eight months in 1747–1748 before he was blinded and deposed by his own brother Ebrahim. The Mashhad mint had particular political significance for the Afsharids — Nader Shah had made it a key administrative center, and the mint remained active through the brutal succession struggles that followed his assassination in June 1747. Type C distinguishes itself from earlier Adel issues by specific calligraphic arrangements in the mint and regnal formula, a product of die-cutters working under an increasingly unstable court.