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Mughal inscriptions - Jahangir Lahore mint

I made these pages to help myself with the inscritpions on Indian rupees.

After 30 years on the throne Akbar started dating the coins from the first year of his reign, and teh era was termed "Ilahi" or divine - hence the origin of the inscriptions. The obverse inscription can be read more generally as "God is most great, eminent is His glory"
Original coin image
Allahu
Akbar
Jalla - "Glorified"
Jalalahu - "Glory to Him"
Farwardin - the month the coin was struck
Illahi - Divine
Date - Yr.42
mint - Ahmadabad
zarb- "struck at"



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