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1 Rupee - Jahandar Shah Tatta
| Issuer | Mughal Empire |
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| Year | 1712 |
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| Value | 1 Rupee |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a three-line Persian calligraphic legend in Nasta'liq script arranged in horizontal registers, recording the mint name 'Zarb Tatta' — identifying Tatta (Sindh) as the place of striking — along with the regnal year formula 'Julus Sana Ahad' (Regnal Year One) and the auspicious phrase 'Memanat Manos.' A beaded inner border encircles the inscriptions, a decorative convention characteristic of late Mughal provincial mint issues. The flan displays the slightly uneven edges and variable surface texture inherent to hammered coinage of this period. |
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Jahandar Shah's reign lasted less than a year — he seized the Mughal throne in early 1712 by defeating his brothers, only to be strangled on the orders of his nephew Farrukhsiyar in January 1713. Coins struck in his name at Tatta, the principal mint of Sind, represent a window of perhaps eight or nine months of actual production.
Tatta had been one of the Mughal empire's most commercially active minting centers since Akbar's reign, serving trade networks through the Indus delta. Its issues under Jahandar are routinely encountered with weak peripheral legends owing to the shallow dish-like flans the Tatta mint consistently produced.