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Description
Mughal Empire, Mirza Aziz-ud-Din Muhammad of the House of Babur, as Alamgir II, the Fifteenth Mughal Emperor 1754-1759 AD, Gold Mohur, regnal year 2 (3rd June 1755 – 2nd June 1754 AD), in the name of ‘Dar al-Khalifat’ (‘The Caliph’s house’) – Shahjahanabad mint. Obverse: Legend in Persian citing the royal titulature of Emperor Alamgir II. Reverse: Legend as obverse, citing the mint formula and regnal year. KM-465.1. Certified and graded by NGC as Almost Uncirculated 55. An attractive mohur, typically well struck and choice for the type, feels under graded.
A son of Jahandar Shah, the ninth Mughal Emperor, and a member of the Royal Dynasty of the Mughal Empire, the House of Babur, Mirza Aziz-ud-Din Muhammad was born into a turbulent period of Mughal history. In 1714, at the age of 15, Aziz-ud-Din‘s father was defeated and killed by Farrukhsiyar who then ascended as the tenth Mughal Emperor, and by order of the Nizim of Hyderabad, Asaf Jah I, was imprisoned for the following four decades as a political enemy. After an uprising by Ghazi ud-Din Khan Feroze Jung III (Imad-ul-Mulk), a Grand Vizier, in 1754, Aziz-ud-Din was freed and, being deemed as a weak personality, was raised on the 3rd of June 1754 (Hijri year 1167) as the fifteenth Mughal Emperor and granted the regnal name Alamgir II. Ruling over an increasingly weakened Empire, Alamgir II was emperor for a mere five years before his assassination orchestrated by his previous liberator, Imad-ul-Mulk, who aligned himself with the Maratha Confederacy.
