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1 Rupee - Bombay Presidency INO James II

Issuer East India Company (Bombay Presidency)
Year 1686-1687
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Value 1 Rupee
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Obverse description Entirely in the Mughal tradition, the obverse bears a multi-line Persian (Nastaliq) legend arranged in sweeping calligraphic bands across the field, reading in translation: 'Coin of the Governor General of King James the Second.' The inscription is set within a circular border with no additional figurative devices, consistent with the Islamic prohibition on figural imagery. The die work is characteristic of early Bombay Presidency hand-struck coinage, showing slightly irregular flan shape and variable strike depth.
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Obverse lettering (Translation: coin of the Governor General of King James the second.)
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The Bombay Presidency rupee of 1686–87 was struck under the authority of the East India Company at a moment when the Company's Bombay mint had only recently been established — Bombay itself had been acquired from the Portuguese as part of Catherine of Braganza's dowry to Charles II in 1661, and the mint followed as commercial ambitions expanded. The "INO" designation reflects the Company's practice of issuing coinage in the name of the reigning English monarch, here James II, to assert legitimate sovereign backing for its trading currency.

James II's reign lasted only three years before the Glorious Revolution of 1688 ended it, making the window for this particular type exceptionally narrow.

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