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1/4 Mohur - Jahangir Shikargah mint
| Issuer | Mughal Empire |
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| Year | 1625 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a three-line Arabic-script legend in Nasta'liq style, deeply struck across the flan in bold relief, reading 'Sana 1034 / Julus maimanat manus / 20', recording the Hijri regnal year 1034 and the twentieth year of Jahangir's auspicious reign. The text is arranged in diagonal bands across the field, consistent with Mughal hammered coinage convention. A beaded border encircles the entire design, framing the inscription within the coin's round periphery. |
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The Shikargah mint — meaning "hunting ground" — was not a conventional urban mint but a temporary field installation established at imperial hunting encampments. Jahangir, whose memoirs document his obsessive interest in natural history and the hunt, authorized coins struck at these sites as markers of royal presence. Issues from Shikargah are among the rarest of the Mughal quarter mohur series precisely because output depended entirely on the emperor's itinerary rather than any standing production schedule.