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1 Rupee - Alamgir II Jagannathpur
| Uitgever | Dutch East India Company (VOC) |
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| Jaar | 1770 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Hammered silver flan bearing three lines of Nastaliq Arabic calligraphy divided by a horizontal ruled line. The upper register reads 'Sikka Mubarak / Badshah Ghazi' and the lower register bears the imperial name 'Alamgir II'. The legends are boldly struck in deep relief characteristic of Mughal-style rupees issued under VOC authority. The field is plain with slight irregularities typical of hand-struck coinage of this period. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | سکه مبارک بادشاه غازی عالمگیر ٢ |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
The VOC minted rupees at Jagannathpur — their mint in the Bengal region — primarily to facilitate trade with Mughal-administered territories where local merchants would only accept Mughal-pattern coinage. Issuing under the name of Alamgir II, who had died in 1759, was deliberate: the coin needed to pass as legitimate imperial currency, and the fiction of a living emperor's authority kept it commercially viable long after the man himself was gone.
By 1770, the VOC's finances were deteriorating badly, and the company would enter a cycle of debt from which it never recovered.