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1 Rupee - Ahmad Shah Bahadur Arcot
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| Weight | 11.4 g |
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| Reverse description | Persian Nasta'liq inscriptions arranged across multiple registers covering the entire field, containing the julus (accession) formula recording the regnal year of Ahmad Shah Bahadur and the mint name Masulipatnam (Macchlipatan). The legends are densely composed in flowing calligraphic style on an irregularly shaped hand-struck flan, consistent with contemporary Mughal provincial coinage practice. |
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| Reverse lettering | جلوس مبارک ماچھلی پتن |
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Ahmad Shah Bahadur, the Mughal emperor from 1748 to 1754, was effectively a puppet of the Wazir Safdarjung and later the Maratha-backed factions that competed for control of Delhi. Arcot, as a Mughal successor state in the Carnatic, continued striking coins in the emperor's name long after any real imperial authority had dissolved — a practice common among provincial mints that used the nominal emperor as a legal fiction to legitimize local coinage.
KM#20 is one of several Arcot rupee types attributed to this reign, distinguished primarily by die characteristics rather than design changes between issues.