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1 Rupee - Shah Alam II Dar ul Khilafat Shahajanabad Athani
| Issuer | Maratha Confederacy (Raste chiefs, Pune) |
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| Value | 1 Rupee |
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| Obverse description | Typical Mughal-style hammered rupee obverse bearing the royal legend of Shah Alam II in Persian Naskh script, arranged in three horizontal registers divided by raised lines. The central field carries the emperor's name and titles in bold calligraphic strokes, while the upper register contains additional regnal epithets. The lower register bears further Persian inscriptions pertaining to sovereignty. The flan is irregular, as is characteristic of hand-struck coinage of this period. |
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| Reverse script | Arabic/Devanagari |
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The Maratha Confederacy's practice of striking coins in the name of the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II was not tribute — it was calculated political theater. By invoking imperial authority on their own coinage, the Marathas legitimized their position as the de facto power behind a throne they had no intention of restoring. The Raste chiefs of Pune were minor sardars within this system, their issues distinguishable by specific mint epithets rather than any formal grant of minting rights.
Dar ul Khilafat Shahajanabad — "the seat of the caliphate, Shahjahanabad" — names Delhi as mint city on a coin almost certainly struck in the Deccan.