1 Rupee - Jahangir Jahangirnagar mint

Jahangirnagar — the city Jahangir renamed after himself — is present-day Dhaka, established as a Mughal provincial mint following the consolidation of Bengal under imperial control in the early seventeenth century. The mint operated under considerable logistical strain given Bengal's distance from the imperial core at Agra, and die workmanship from Jahangirnagar is noticeably less refined than contemporary Agra or Lahore output. Jahangir was himself obsessed with coinage as an art form — he commissioned some of the most ambitious portrait and zodiac issues in Mughal numismatic history — which makes the workaday provincial rupees from this mint a striking contrast to his ambitions.