Change of Superscription on Coins of Native States, 1858–1872
Sarjit Singh Randhawa · 2022
The coinage of most of the native states of India carried the impression of the Mughal emperor at the time of Revolt of 1857 and represented a peculiar political phenomenon. Ordinarily the name of only a paramount power is inscribed by a subordinate state on its coins. The Bharatpur coin was also superscribed in the same way and perhaps all the Rajputana states continued to bear the earlier superscription on their coinage as if Delhi was the paramount power. The Officiating Agent was confident that any suggestion for the substitution of the superscription of the British government in place of the emperors would be readily and eagerly accepted by all chiefs in Rajputana. By 1872, almost all the chiefs and princes, with the exception of Scindia, removed the superscription of the Mughal emperor from their coins, but only two new native states had decided to inscribe the name of the Queen.