1 Rupee - Shah Jahan Lahore mint

Shah Jahan's accession in 1628 followed a prolonged rebellion against his own father Jahangir, and his early coinage reflects an immediate need to assert legitimacy across the empire's mints. Lahore — one of the most productive Mughal mints and the administrative capital of the Punjab — would have struck enormous volumes in these first regnal years as new dies were cut and the transition formalised in silver.

KM#224.14 distinguishes the Lahore attribution within a type struck simultaneously at over a dozen mints, differentiated primarily by mint name in the marginal inscription.