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Rupee - Sambhaji Angre Rajapur
| Issuer | Maratha Empire (Indian states) |
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| Year | 1733-1742 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays the regnal year (sana julus) and the mint name Rajapur along with the zarb (struck at) formula, all rendered in Nasta'liq script across horizontal registers divided by a ruled line. Diamond and pellet ornaments punctuate the field in typical Maratha rupee style. The inscription follows the conventional Mughal-derived epigraphic format used by Sambhaji Angre's mint at Rajapur, indicating the year of the reign in which the coin was struck. |
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Sambhaji Angre was the son of the legendary Kanhoji Angre, whose Maratha naval dominance had humiliated the British, Dutch, and Portuguese alike for decades. Sambhaji inherited command of the western fleet in 1729 but lacked his father's political discipline, eventually fighting other Maratha factions as often as foreign powers. His coinage from Rajapur — a coastal trading port on the Konkan — reflects a brief window of quasi-independent authority before the Peshwa's forces under Chimaji Appa and later the Angre family's internal fractures eroded that autonomy entirely by the 1750s.