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1 Rupee - Alamgir II Shahjahanabad mint
| Issuer | Mughal Empire |
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| Year | 1756-1760 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | عزيز الدين عالمگير بادشاه غازي سکه زد بر سيم و زر چون ماه و خورشيد تابان |
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| Mintage | ND - AH116x / RY#2 - 1169 (1756) - RY#3 - 1170 (1757) - RY#3 - 1170 (1757) - RY#4 - 1171 (1758) - RY#4 - 1171 (1758) - RY#5 - 1172 (1759) - RY#5 - 1172 (1759) - RY#6 - 1173 (1760) - RY#6 - |
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Alamgir II reigned as a puppet, his authority effectively held by the wazir Imad-ul-Mulk, who would eventually have him murdered in 1759. Rupees struck at Shahjahanabad — the imperial capital Delhi — during these years were issued against a backdrop of Maratha incursions and the catastrophic aftermath of Ahmad Shah Durrani's 1757 sack of the city. The mint itself was periodically disrupted.
KM#457.1 distinguishes the Shahjahanabad issues from parallel strikes at provincial mints, most of which were operating under increasingly autonomous regional governors rather than any meaningful Mughal oversight by this point.