Description
Mughal ; Jahangir ; Large Flan Ornamental Silver Rupee ;Illahi Type ;
Mint : Qandhar ( Full Mint ) ; Illahi Month : Ardibhisht ( Full Month )
Weight : 11.41 Grams
Note : In Kandhar , under Babur & Humayun , the silver baburi was in vogue. Akbar does not seem to have opened a mint at Kandahar after its occupation in 1595,and the tuman ( equivalent to 800 dams = 20 rupees ) and the dinar ( 18 dinar = 1 tuman ) continued to be in use probably mainly as money of account .But in Jahangir?s reign , a Mughal mint started issuing rupees from Kandahar until it was lost to Iran in 1622.
As the great Abu’l Fazl, close friend and adviser to Emperor Akbar and chronicler of Akbarnama (the biography of Akbar), once said, “intelligent men of the past have considered Kabul and Kandahar as the twin gates of Hindustan, one (Kandahar) for the passage to Iran, and the other (Kabul) for that to Turan. By guarding these two places, Hindustan obtains peace from the raider and global traffic by these two routes can prosper.” Later events proved this right as first Nadir Shah and later Ahmed Shah ‘Abdali’ (or Durrani), both from Persia (Iran) invaded, looted and plundered a weak Mughal Empire post-Aurangzeb.
