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| Issuer | Mughal Empire |
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| Year | 1611 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | نور الدین جهانگیر شاه اکبر |
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| Mintage | 1020 (1611) 6 |
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Jahangir's gold mohurs from this period are among the most literarily ambitious coins in Islamic numismatics. The emperor — an obsessive diarist and aesthete — personally directed that verses from his own poetry be inscribed on the coinage, a practice virtually unheard of among his predecessors. The Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri records his direct involvement in mint decisions, and he was known to reject dies that failed to meet his calligraphic standards.
KM#179.4 places this within the Agra mint series of his early regnal years, coinciding with the consolidation of his reign following the failed rebellion of his own son Khusrau in 1606.