Rupee - Shahrukh Afshar Type B, Asterābād mint

Shahrukh was a grandson of Nadir Shah, installed as a puppet ruler in Khorasan after the chaos following Nadir's assassination in 1747. His authority was never undisputed — he was blinded by a rival claimant in 1750, briefly restored, blinded again, and eventually tortured by Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar decades later in a search for hidden Safavid treasures. Coins struck under his name from 1749 fall into this narrow window of nominal sovereignty before the first mutilation.

Asterābād, on the southeastern Caspian littoral, functioned as a regional mint of secondary importance. The Type B distinction reflects a die revision within his abbreviated early coinage.