1/2 Falus - Shah Jahan Ujjain

Shah Jahan's copper coinage has long been overshadowed by his silver and gold issues, but the half falus from Ujjain mint represents a genuinely local circulation piece — produced for everyday transactions in a city that had been an important commercial and religious center long before the Mughals absorbed it. Ujjain's mint was intermittently active under the later Mughals, and copper issues from provincial mints like this one were rarely shipped far from their point of striking.

KM#201.1 distinguishes Ujjain-struck pieces within a broader type, though die workmanship on provincial copper was inconsistent enough that attribution sometimes relies on mint name placement alone.