Mughal India, Jahangir. Unpublished Medal or Presentation Issue. Trial Strike!

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Mughal India, Jahangir. Unpublished Medal or Presentation Issue. Trial Strike!
Mint Year: 1750s-1850s
Reference: Unpublished!
Mint Place: Uncertain, possibly Calcutta (or London?)
Denomination: Medal / Multiple Mohur - Jahangir (4th Mughal Emperor, 1605-1627)
Condition:
A typical uniface trial-strike, with paper remains in reverse and obverse, corrosion, otherwise XF!
Reference: Friedberg 758 var. (there a single mohur with different design), KM-179 var. (there a single mohur with different design).
Material: Lead / White Metal
Diameter: 38mm
Obverse:
Typical for these presentation issues bust of Jahangir (similar to the Mohurs issued in his name and his portrait), surrounded by light. Persian inscriptions around with three numerals (dates?).
Reverse: Blanc (uniface
).
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.
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Nur-ud-din Muhammad Salim
(Persian:
نورالدین محمد سلیم
), known by his imperial name
Jahangir
(Persian:
جهانگیر
) (August 1569 – 28 October 1627), was the fourth Mughal Emperor, who ruled from 1605 until his death in 1627. His imperial name (in Persian), means 'conqueror of the world', 'world-conqueror' or 'world-seizer' (
Jahan
: world;
gir
: the root of the Persian verb
gereftan
: to seize, to grab). The tale of his relationship with the Mughal courtesan, Anarkali, has been widely adapted into the literature, art and cinema of India.
Prince Salim, later Jahangir, was born on 31 August 1569, in Fatehpur Sikri, to Akbar and one of his wives Mariam-uz-Zamani, daughter of Raja Bharmal of Amber. Akbar's previous children had died in infancy and he had sought the help of holy men to produce a son. Salim was named for one such man, Shaikh Salim, though Akbar always called him Shekhu Baba.
Prince Salim succeeded to the throne on Thursday, 3 November 1605, eight days after his father's death. Salim ascended to the throne with the title of Nur-ud-din Muhammad Jahangir Badshah Ghazi and thus began his 22-year reign at the age of 36. Jahangir soon after had to fend off his own son, Prince Khusrau Mirza, when the latter attempted to claim the throne based on Akbar's will to become his next heirs. Khusrau Mirza was defeated in 1606 and confined in the fort of Agra. As punishment, Khusrau Mirza was handed over to his younger brother and was partially blinded and killed.
Jahangir considered his third son Prince Khurram (future Shah Jahan), his favourite. In 1622, Khurram murdered his blind older brother, Khusrau Mirza, in order to smooth his own path to the throne.
In 1622, Jahangir sent his son, Prince Khurram, to fight against the combined forces of Ahmednagar, Bijapur and Golconda. After his victory, Khurram turned against his father and made a bid for power. As with the insurrection of his eldest son, Khusrau Mirza, Jahangir was able to defeat the challenge from within his family and retain power.
In 1623, Emperor Jahangir sent his
Tahwildar
, Khan Alam, to Safavid Persia, accompanied by 800 sepoys, scribes and scholars along with ten Howdahs well decorated in gold and silver, in order to negotiate peace with Abbas I of Persia after a brief conflict in the region around Kandahar.[
citation needed
] Khan Alam soon returned with valuable gifts and groups of
Mir Shikar
(Hunt Masters) from both Safavid Persia and the Khanates of Central Asia.
In 1626, Jahangir began to contemplate an alliance between the Ottomans, Mughals and Uzbeks against the Safavids, who had defeated the Mughals at Kandahar. He even wrote a letter to the Ottoman Sultan Murad IV. Jahangir's ambition did not materialise, however, due to his death in 1627.
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