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1 Rupee - Shah Jahan Qandahar Deccan mint
| Issuer | Mughal Empire |
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| Year | 1628-1640 |
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| Weight | 11.37 g |
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| Reverse description | Hammered silver flan bearing the Islamic declaration of faith, the Kalima, rendered in bold Nasta'liq script arranged across two registers within a ruled rectangular cartouche. The upper register displays 'La ilaha illa Allah' and the lower register 'Muhammad rasul Allah', affirming the central tenet of Islam in accordance with standard Mughal rupee typology. A regnal year or Hijri date numeral appears in the exergual area at the base of the cartouche. The calligraphy is deeply and vigorously engraved, with decorative dot embellishments punctuating the field, typical of Shah Jahan-era provincial mint production. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Shah Jahan's claim to Qandahar was among the most expensive obsessions of his reign. The city changed hands repeatedly between Mughal and Safavid control across the seventeenth century, and coins struck in his name invoking that western frontier carried deliberate political weight — asserting dominion over territory that was, in practice, contested or lost for much of his rule. The Persians retook Qandahar definitively in 1649, ending Mughal pretensions there despite three costly military campaigns.
The Deccan mint attribution for a Qandahar-type rupee reflects the Mughal practice of striking coins naming a politically significant mint at geographically distant facilities — administrative assertion rather than geographic fact.