Rupee - Nader Afshar Type D2, Shahjahanabad mint

Nader Shah's 1739 sack of Delhi was among the most financially catastrophic events in Mughal history — he extracted an estimated 700 million rupees worth of treasure, including the Peacock Throne, and stripped the imperial treasury so thoroughly that the Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah waived all taxation across his remaining territories for three years afterward. This rupee was struck at Shahjahanabad, the Mughal imperial capital itself, during Nader's brief occupation, a direct assertion of Afsharid sovereignty over the conquered city's own mint infrastructure.

The D2 type classification distinguishes this issue within a series that spans Nader's evolving coinage reforms following the Indian campaign.