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1 Mohur - Shah Shuja' al-Mulk Mubarak Rikab mint
| Issuer | Durrani Empire |
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| Year | 1805 |
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| Value | 1 Mohur (16) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | The reverse field displays a two-line Nasta'liq legend in bold relief, reading 'Zarb Mubarak Rikab' in the central register with the regnal year '1219' (AH) inscribed within a cartouche or crescent-shaped frame at the upper portion of the field. A beaded border encircles the periphery of the irregular flan. The mint name 'Mubarak Rikab' identifies the royal camp mint, a peripatetic establishment associated with the Durrani court. The strike is characteristic of hammered technique, showing slight softness at the margins consistent with the hand-struck production methods of the period. |
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Shah Shuja ruled the Durrani Empire twice, separated by years of imprisonment and exile. His first reign ended in 1809 when his half-brother Mahmud Shah had him deposed and eventually captured; he spent years confined in Kashmir before escaping. The Rikab mint — a traveling or camp mint attached to the royal retinue rather than a fixed installation — issued coins that moved with the court itself, making attribution by mint particularly meaningful for establishing where a ruler actually held power at a given moment.
Fr#11 is among the scarcer Durrani gold attributions precisely because Shuja's first reign was short and politically turbulent.