1 Rupee - Shah Jahan Gulkanda mint

Golconda — the mint name used on these rupees — was not a Mughal city by right but by conquest, absorbed into the empire only after Aurangzeb's siege of 1687. Coins struck there during Shah Jahan's reign, however, predate that annexation; Golconda was then a tributary sultanate operating under Mughal suzerainty, and the appearance of a Mughal rupee from that mint reflects the complex fiscal arrangements Shah Jahan imposed on nominally independent regional powers. The date range spanning 1037–1068 AH covers virtually his entire reign, including the years of his imprisonment by Aurangzeb from 1658 onward.