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Rupee - Ahmad Shah Bahadur Balwantnagar / Jhansi
| Issuer | Maratha Confederacy, Jhansi |
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| Year | 1748-1754 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents multiple lines of Persian-script legend in Nastaliq style, divided into two registers by a curved line, following standard Mughal rupee format. The upper register contains the kalima or regnal couplet, while the lower register records the mint name Balwantnagar (Jhansi) in full, positioned at the bottom of the field. Mint city and regnal year details are incorporated within the legend field in accordance with Mughal-Maratha coinage conventions. The flan edges are somewhat irregular, consistent with the hammered technique employed at this provincial mint. |
| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Ahmad Shah Bahadur, the Mughal emperor whose name this rupee carries, was a largely ceremonial figurehead by the time these coins were struck — real power had fragmented among regional warlords and Maratha chiefs. Jhansi's use of his regnal name was a political convenience, lending Mughal legitimacy to a mint that answered to Maratha authority. The Balwantnagar mint designation places production at a fortified site in Bundelkhand, a contested region that changed hands repeatedly through the mid-eighteenth century.
Ahmad Shah Bahadur was deposed and blinded in 1754, which provides the hard terminus for this type.