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1 Rupee - Muhammad Shah Shahjahanabad mint
| Issuer | Mughal Empire |
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| Year | 1721-1748 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Muhammad Shah ruled for nearly three decades, an unusually long reign for a Mughal emperor of the late period, though it was defined less by stability than by catastrophic contraction. In 1739, Nader Shah of Persia sacked Delhi — the Shahjahanabad mint's home city — looting the imperial treasury, seizing the Peacock Throne, and carrying off an estimated 700 million rupees in cash and valuables. Coinage from the Shahjahanabad mint effectively ceased during the occupation and resumed only after Nader Shah withdrew.
Pieces struck before 1739 and those struck after are products of a fundamentally different empire in all but name.