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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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| Value | 1 Rupee |
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| Reverse lettering | بلونت نگر |
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| Mintage | ND (1748-1754) - ND |
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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.