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1 Rupee - Muhammad Shah Khujista Bunyad
| Issuer | Mughal Empire (India) |
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| Year | 1720-1746 |
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| Value | 1 Rupee |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a multi-line Persian legend in Nasta'liq script within a ruled rectangular cartouche, reading 'Mainus al-Maimanat Julus Zarb Khujista Bunyad,' identifying the mint as Khujista Bunyad and recording the regnal year (julus) of Muhammad Shah's accession. The mint name Khujista Bunyad, meaning 'auspicious foundation,' appears prominently in the lower portion of the field. The legend celebrates the felicity of the reign and the blessed nature of the coinage, following standard Mughal reverse formulae. The hammered flan shows characteristic irregular edges and surface texture consistent with hand-struck Mughal silver coinage of the early 18th century. |
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| Mint | Khujista Bunyad |
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Muhammad Shah's reign opened in chaos — he took the throne at seventeen following the assassination of his predecessor Farrukhsiyar, placed there by the Sayyid brothers who expected a puppet. He eventually outmaneuvered and destroyed them, but the empire he inherited was already fragmenting at its edges. The epithet "Khujista Bunyad" (auspicious foundation) attached to his regnal titles carries a bitter irony: his reign culminated in Nader Shah's 1739 sack of Delhi, during which the Persian conqueror stripped the treasury of an estimated 700 million rupees and carried off the Peacock Throne.
KM#436.38 denotes a specific mint attribution within a sprawling series issued across dozens of provincial mints simultaneously.