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Rupee - Mir Kasim Ali Khan Shah Alam II; Patna
| Issuer | Nawabdom of Bengal (Indian states) |
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| Year | 1761 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Three-line Arabic script legend filling the central field, executed in the flowing Naskh calligraphic tradition of Mughal-derived provincial coinage. The inscription identifies the regnal year and the Azimabad (Patna) mint, with the numeral 1175 (AH) visible in the lower field. A circular marginal border frames the epigraphic composition, consistent with hammered rupees of the Bengal Nawabdom period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Mir Kasim deposed his predecessor Mir Jafar with active British East India Company support in 1760, ceding three districts — Burdwan, Midnapore, and Chittagong — as payment. This rupee, struck at Patna the following year, predates the rupture: within two years Mir Kasim would expel Company traders from private duties, triggering the chain of events that ended at Buxar in 1764. The nominal attribution to Mughal emperor Shah Alam II was by then a legal fiction — the emperor himself was a fugitive.