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Pice from Bengal in India of the East India Company (EIC) in the name of Shah Alam I, (1795)
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Copper coin. Obverse: inscription in Arabic script on three lines. On bottom line left indication of regnal year: 37 [=1795]. Reverse: inscription in five lines in Bengali, Persian in Arabic script and Hindi in Nagari script. Smooth edge. Struck at Calcutta.
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Credit linePice uit Bengalen in India van de Engelse Oostindische Compagnie (EIC) op naam van Sjah Alam I, (1795). 1831. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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