Forged Mohur of Shah Alam II
Bengal Province of the British Empire in India which were previously the Presidency of Fort William was familiar as the Bengal Presidency. It covered large parts of what is now South Asia and Southeast Asia at the pick of its territorial jurisdiction. Ali Gohar familiar as Shah Alam II was the seventeenth Mughal Emperor. He was the son of Alamgir II. He became the emperor of a crumbling Mughal empire. His 1 st reign was from10 October 1760 to 31 July 1788 and 2 nd reign was from 16 October 1788 to 19 November 1806. During the reign of Shah Alam II, pure Gold one mohur was minted with a weight around 12.36gm and diameter around 26mm. Obverse was Persian inscription, couplet and reverse was Persian-julus (formula) with mint name. Edge of the coin was oblique milling. It was minted in Azimabad, Jahangirnagar, Calcutta and Murshidabad. But I found a gold colour coin of Shah Alam II, quite similar as one mohur of Shah Alam II (1788). Metal composition of this coin was 62% Copper, 37% ...