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1 Rupee - Muhammad Shah Sironj
| Issuer | Mughal Empire (India) |
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| Year | 1720-1747 |
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| Currency | Rupee (1540-1842) |
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| Obverse script | Persian |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Muhammad Shah ruled for nearly three decades — unuseful long by Mughal standards of the period — but his reign was defined by catastrophic military humiliation when Nader Shah of Persia sacked Delhi in 1739, carrying off the Peacock Throne and an estimated 700 million rupees in treasure. Sironj, a mint town in present-day Madhya Pradesh, continued striking throughout this turbulence.
The KM#436.59 designation isolates Sironj among dozens of active Mughal mints producing to the same weight standard simultaneously — mint identification relies entirely on the mint epithet in the marginal inscription, making attribution a textual rather than a metallurgical exercise.