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1 Rupee - Aurangzeb Alamgir
| Issuer | Madras Presidency |
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| Year | 1691-1707 |
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| Currency | Rupee (1691-1835) |
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| Obverse lettering | سکه زد در جهان چو مهر منیر شاه اورنگ زیب عالمگیر |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Aurangzeb's rupees struck at Madras present a documentary puzzle: the Madras Presidency mint was an English East India Company operation, yet it produced Mughal-type coinage in the emperor's name as a commercial necessity. English merchants required coins acceptable in Mughal markets, and Aurangzeb's administration periodically scrutinized foreign mints issuing in his name — the Company walked a careful line between commercial pragmatism and imperial tolerance. The date range spans the final sixteen years of his reign, the longest of any Mughal emperor at nearly fifty years total.