Square silver rupee, Akbar the Great (1556-1605), NM, Mughal Empire

Description

Inscriptions on both sides: Kalima / Akbar's name and titles, mintmark in the lower margin (off flan). Dated to 998 AH = 1589 AD. Excellent coin, very attractive. Uncertain mint. 17x18mm, 11.21 grams. KM 82x. The Mughal Dynasty is a line of Muslim emperors who reigned in India from 1526 to 1858. Babur, the first mughal emperor, was a descendant of the Turkish conqueror Timur on his father's side and of the Mongol (n, mughal) conqueror Genghis Khan on his mother's side, Invaded India from Afghanistan and founded the Mughal Empire on the ruin of the Delhi Sultanate. From 1526, when Babur defeated Sultan Ibrahim Lodi, the ruler of Delhi and established himself in neighbouring Agra, until 1638, when his great-great-grandson Shah Jehan built a new capital city in Delhi again, Agra was a repository for all the wealth and talent of one of the most extensive empires in the medieval world.
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