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1 Rupee - Shah Alam Bahadur Khambayat Mint
| Issuer | Mughal Empire |
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| Year | 1708 |
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| Currency | Rupee (1540-1842) |
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| Reverse description | Hammered silver flan featuring a two-line Persian-Arabic legend in Naskh script, arranged within a horizontal cartouche framed by dotted border lines. The upper register contains the regnal year formula 'Jalus Maimanat Manus' (auspicious accession), while the lower register records the mint name 'Zarb Khambayat' (struck at Khambayat), identifying the place of issue. The regnal year appears in the upper portion of the field. Peripheral calligraphic elements and dotted ornaments fill the remaining field, consistent with standard Mughal rupee typology of the early eighteenth century. The overall strike reflects the characteristic irregularity of hammered coinage from this period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Shah Alam Bahadur's reign lasted barely five years, from 1707 to 1712, bookended by the death of Aurangzeb and the empire's accelerating fragmentation. He spent much of his reign putting down revolts by his own sons — a dynastic pattern that had consumed his predecessors as well. The Khambayat mint, operating in what is now Khambhat in Gujarat, served a commercially vital port city whose textile and indigo trade had drawn European factors for over a century.
1708 corresponds to regnal year 1 by the Hijri calendar reckoning used on Mughal coinage — placing this piece among the earliest strikes of his reign.