Rupee - Sambhaji Angre Rajapur

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.