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1 Rupee - Aurangzeb Lakhnau mint
| Issuer | Mughal Empire |
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| Year | 1671-1705 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Hammered round flan with a three-line Persian inscription in Nasta'liq script arranged within a rectangular cartouche framed by two horizontal ruled lines, with pellet ornaments in the side fields. The upper line bears the auspicious accession formula, the middle line contains the regnal year (sana), and the lower line carries the mint name 'Lakhnau' identifying the place of issue. The overall style is consistent with the standardised Mughal rupee type struck throughout Aurangzeb's reign. |
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Aurangzeb's rupees from the Lakhnau mint span one of the longest and most fiscally strained reigns in Mughal history. His nearly 49-year rule saw the empire stretch to its greatest territorial extent while simultaneously hemorrhaging treasury reserves into the Deccan campaigns — a war of attrition against the Marathas that consumed resources without resolution. The Lakhnau mint, operating under provincial administration in Awadh, maintained output throughout, even as imperial coherence in the region began quietly fraying.
Dating these pieces precisely requires reading the regnal year struck on each coin alongside the mint epithet.