1 Rupee - Muhammad Shah Burhanpur mint

Muhammad Shah's reign began in chaos — he was placed on the throne at seventeen by the Sayyid Brothers, the kingmakers who had already installed and disposed of three emperors in four years. He outlasted them, eventually engineering the execution of Hussain Ali Khan in 1720 and the imprisonment of his brother, consolidating a reign that would stretch nearly three decades despite Nadir Shah's catastrophic sack of Delhi in 1739, which stripped the empire of the Peacock Throne and an estimated 700 million rupees in treasure.

Burhanpur, a Deccan mint city on the Tapti River, had been a Mughal administrative stronghold since Akbar's southward expansion. Its output under Muhammad Shah reflects continued provincial minting even as central authority fractured irreversibly.