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1 Rupee - Muhammad Shah Azimabad mint
| Issuer | Mughal Empire |
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| Year | 1719-1744 |
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| Currency | Rupee (1540-1842) |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears the name and titles of Emperor Muhammad Shah in flowing Nastaliq calligraphy, arranged in two registers separated by a horizontal line. The upper register contains the imperial epithet, while the central band prominently displays the ruler's name 'Muhammad Shah'. The lower register contains the AH regnal date in Arabic numerals. The entire design fills the flan to its edges in the characteristic Mughal hammered style, with no border ornamentation. |
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| Obverse lettering | محمد شاه |
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Muhammad Shah's reign began with his placement on the throne at age seventeen by the Sayyid Brothers, the kingmaker nobles who had already deposed two emperors in quick succession. He eventually outmaneuvered and destroyed them in 1720, then ruled for over two decades — making him the last Mughal emperor to hold something resembling genuine territorial authority before Nadir Shah's catastrophic 1739 sack of Delhi stripped the empire of its Persian treasury and roughly half its productive revenue base.
Azimabad, present-day Patna, was a major Bihar mint with continuous Mughal output. The .436 series for this reign shows considerable variation in flan preparation across active mints.