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1 Rupee - Bahadur Shah Lakhnau mint
| Issuer | Mughal Empire |
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| Year | 1708-1710 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Hammered silver reverse featuring a multi-line Arabic Nasta'liq inscription arranged in two registers divided by a horizontal ruled line. The upper portion bears the mint formula and the lower register records the regnal year numeral, with the full legend reading 'Zarb Lakhnau 2' (struck at Lakhnau, regnal year 2), indicating production at the Lakhnau mint. Additional partial legends visible at the coin's periphery contain further elements of the standard Mughal mint and date formula. The deeply incised calligraphy is characteristic of early eighteenth-century Mughal hammered coinage, with pellet ornaments interspersed among the letterforms. |
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Bahadur Shah I — also known as Shah Alam I — minted these rupees during a reign consumed almost entirely by military campaigning. His accession in 1707 followed a brutal succession war against his own brothers after Aurangzeb's death, and he spent nearly every subsequent year in the field, first subduing the Rajputs, then negotiating with the Marathas, then pursuing the Sikh leader Banda Singh Bahadur across the Punjab. The Lakhnau mint operated under these conditions of perpetual imperial distraction.
Bahadur Shah died in February 1712 at Lahore, triggering another succession war among his four sons within weeks of his death.