Aurangzeb died in February 1707 after a reign of nearly fifty years — the longest of any Mughal emperor — leaving an empire fiscally exhausted by his decades-long Deccan campaigns. Coins struck at Murshidabad in his final years circulated through Bengal's increasingly autonomous provincial economy, the very region that would within a generation slip beyond effective imperial control under Murshid Quli Khan.
Murshidabad was one of the most productive mints in the empire, fed by Bengal's substantial revenue flows from textile trade.
Aurangzeb died in February 1707 after a reign of nearly fifty years — the longest of any Mughal emperor — leaving an empire fiscally exhausted by his decades-long Deccan campaigns. Coins struck at Murshidabad in his final years circulated through Bengal's increasingly autonomous provincial economy, the very region that would within a generation slip beyond effective imperial control under Murshid Quli Khan.
Murshidabad was one of the most productive mints in the empire, fed by Bengal's substantial revenue flows from textile trade.