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| Emittent | Sur Empire |
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| Jahr | 1540-1545 |
| Typ | Standard circulation coin |
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| Aversbeschreibung | Boldly struck Arabic-script legend in two registers across the field, executed in a fluid calligraphic hand characteristic of Sur Empire copper coinage. The inscription, rendered in Naskh-style Arabic script, occupies the full flan and reads the royal titulature of Sher Shah Suri. The mint name (Lucknow) appears partially at the lower margin, while the regnal date is off-flan due to the irregular hammered fabric. The surfaces display the pronounced relief and slightly uneven strike typical of mid-16th century Indian hammered copper issues. |
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| Averslegende | شير شاه سوري |
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Sher Shah Suri's copper coinage was among the most systematically reformed in pre-Mughal South Asia. His broader monetary overhaul — standardizing the dam and its fractions across a fragmented subcontinent — was so effective that Akbar later adopted its structural logic wholesale. The Lucknow mint operated under Sur control during a window of perhaps five years before Humayun's return collapsed the empire entirely in 1555.
Attribution to Lucknow specifically, rather than the more prolific Agra or Delhi issues, keeps this piece toward the scarcer end of Sur copper survivorship.