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1 Rupee - Shah Jahan II Surat mint
| Issuer | Mughal Empire |
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| Year | 1719 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#415.24 |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse lettering | ضرب سورت |
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Shah Jahan II reigned for under a year in 1719, one of four emperors the Mughal throne cycled through in that single catastrophic year following the death of Farrukhsiyar. The Surat mint was among the most commercially active in the empire, its output closely tied to the European trading companies — particularly the English and Dutch East India Companies — who melted foreign silver into rupees to conduct trade on the subcontinent. A coin struck here would have moved through mercantile hands as readily as imperial ones.