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Arkot Mint

Coins were issued from the Arkot mint by:

Moghuls	Shāh ‘Ālam I
	Jahāndār
	Farrukh-Siyar
	Rafi al-Darjāt
	Shāh Jahān II
	Muḥammad Shāh – See Nawābs
	Aḥmad Shāh – See Nawābs
	Ālamgīr II – See Nawābs
	Shāh ‘Ālam II – See Nawābs
Moghul Contemporaries	Nawābs of Arkot
Europeans	British, Early Coinages
	British, Reformation
	British, Later Coinages
	French – Pondicherry Mint
	Danish

History & Coinage

See Nelson Wright, also Brockmeier (2008), JONS 194, p. 34ff also Pridmore SNC 1976 (fifths for Arkot)

XRF Analysis of Arkot silver coins (EIC & Nawāb). Also photon analysis of the same

NB. Examples of coins with AH dates are very rare.

Sometimes it is difficult to determine which emperor a coin belongs to. There are some dot groupings that might help with this. The groups below julūs on the reverse seem to vary as follows:

Muḥammad Shāh usually has a diamond with 4 dots to right below julūs and 3 dots below right of Julus but sometimes has a diamond with 3 dots to right below Julus and 4 dots below right of julūs,

Aḥmad Shāh has a diamond with 3 dots to right below julūs and 3 dots below right of Julus except RY Ahad which has no dots below right of Julus.

Ālamgīr II has a diamond with 3 dots to left below julūs and 4 dots below right of Julus.

Muhammad Shāh	Ahmad Shāh	Alamgir II