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1 Dam - Nur-ud-din Muhammad Jahangir
| Issuer | Mughal Empire |
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| Year | 1027 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#126.6 |
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| Obverse lettering | جهانگیر فلوس |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Jahangir's copper dam coinage is among the more procedurally chaotic of the Mughal series — mints operated with considerable autonomy, and the regnal year system based on the jalus (accession anniversary) rather than the Hijri calendar creates persistent attribution problems for collectors and scholars alike. KM#126.6 represents one of several mint varieties distinguished primarily by mint name and couplet combinations that were rotated with no consistent logic.
By 1027 of Jahangir's reckoning, the emperor was in failing health and increasingly reliant on Nur Jahan, whose political influence over court and administration was effectively absolute — a circumstance unusual enough that contemporaries remarked on it openly.