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SHAH SHUJA AL-MULK DURRANI COIN DIE FROM KABUL MINT dated 1255 AH (1839 AD) from his last reign after his restoration to the throne by BRITISH & SIKHS during First Anglo-Afghan War Period.
Durrani Dynasty: Shah Shuja Al Mulk Durrani 3rd reign coinage reverse side DIE of one Mohur/Rupee denomination coin dated 1255 AH (1839 AD), Kabul (کابل) mint with epithet Dar ul Sultanate (دارالسطنۃ), weighs 206.59 grams, obverse flan 34 mm, length 25 mm, reverse 37 mm.
It's extraordinary rare to find such old die of hand struck coins hence high rarity.
Inscription: ZARB DAR UL SULTANATE KABUL 1255 (۱۲۵۵ ضرب دارالسلطنۃ کابل)
Green: ZARB (ضرب)
Red: DAR UL SULTANATE (دارالسلطنۃ)
Yellow: KABUL (کابل)
White: 1255 (۱۲۵۵)
Historical background:
In 1838 (1254 AH), Shah Shuja had gained the support of the British and the Sikh Maharaja Ranjit Singh for wresting power from Dost Mohammad Khan. George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland, believed that most Afghans would welcome the return of Shuja as their rightful ruler, but in fact, by 1838, most people in Afghanistan could not remember him, and those that did, remembered him as a cruel, tyrannical ruler and absolutely hated him. During the march on Kabul, the main British camp was attacked by a force of Ghazis, of whom 50 were captured. When the prisoners were brought before Shuja, one of them used a knife, hidden in robes, to stab one of Shuja's ministers to death, causing Shuja to fly into one of his rages and order all 50 prisoners to be beheaded on the spot. The British historian, Sir John William Kaye wrote the "wanton barbarity" of the mass execution as all 50 prisoners were beheaded, strained the campaign, stating the "shrill cry" of the prisoners as they waited to be executed, was the "funeral wail" of the "unholy policy" of attempting to restore Shuja. Shuja was restored to the throne by the British with the help of the Sikhs on August 7, 1839, 30 years after his deposition, he did not remain in power when the British and Sikhs left. Upon being restored, Shuja announced that he considered his own people "dogs" who needed to be taught, how to be obedient to their master. He spent his time exacting bloody vengeance on those Afghans whom he felt had betrayed him, making him extremely unpopular with his people. He shut himself away in Bala Hissar, Kabul, but on April 5, 1842, when he left the place, he was assassinated by Shuja ud-Daula, at the insistence of his uncle Osman Khan.
