India - Sikh, Ranjit Singh, Nanakshahi Silver Rupee, Lahore Mint, vs1873 KM#66.1

Description

Obverse Persian Legend:
"ضرب دار السلطنت لاهور سنه جلوس میمنت مانوس" (
Zarb Dar as-Sultanate Lahore Sanah 1857 Julus Maimanat Manus
) [Struck at the capital of Lahore in the year 1857 of the prosperous reign].
Leaf mark on the left on the Date.
Reverse Persian legend:
"سکه زد بر سیم و زر فضل سچا صاحب است فتح گوبند سنگه شاهن تیغ نانک واهب است" (
Sikka zad Bar Sim o Zar Fazl Sachcha Sahib Ast Fath-i-Gobind Singh-i-Shahan Tegh-i-Nanak Wahib Ast
=
Coin struck in silver and gold by the grace of the True Lord. Of the Victory of Gobind, Lion of Kings, Nanak's sword is the provider).
Mintage:
N/A.
Mintage Years:
VS 1856-1885, VS 1806 error for 1860 and VS 1887 (1799-1828 and 1830).
Ruler:
Ranjit Singh.
Note:
The literal translation of "Sachcha Sahib" expression is: the true Lord but it really means: the spiritual Lord and it most often refers to Guru Gobind Singh. He was also called Sachcha badshah (ture or spiritual Emperor) to describe his spiritual leadership as opposed to his secular and military leadership of the Khalsa.
The Sikh rupees of Lahore were struck at a mint outside the Taksali (or Taxali) Gate, which lies just south of the Badshahi Mosque. According to a British report of 1846 the mint had the capacity to strike 8,000 rupees a day. The coining of Rs 100 cost, due to the necessary amount of pure silver, Rs 98 1/2; it left the government just 1 1/2 % for expenses and profit. As the annual profit of the Lahore mint rarely exceeded Rs 3,000 it must normally have worked far below capacity.
Lahore:
According to a local legend a town called Lohawar, a predecessor of the later city of Lahore, was founded by Loh, one of the sons of Rama, the Lord of Ayodhya. Lahore, then a part of the territories of the Hindushahis of Waihand, the actual Hund on the Indus fell in 1014 AD to Mahmud of Ghazni. In 1186 Taj ad-daula Khusru Malik, the last Ghaznawid Sultan of Lahore, lost his capital and the mint town of the Ghaznawid Empire in India, to the Ghorid invaders.
Beginning with Babur the Mughals struck coins at Lahore until the reign of Alamgir II, but the place only gained some importance, when Akbar 'surrounded it with a wall, enlarged its fort and made it his residence from 1584 to 1598. During the reign of Jahangir, whose tomb lies at nearby Shadara, Guru Arjun Dev was imprisoned at Lahore where he, according to the Sikh tradition, disappeared in the River Ravi. Shah Jahan built a palace in the Lahore Fort as well as the famous Shalimar Gardens, and to Aurangzeb we are indebted for the beautiful and impressive Badshahi Mosque, After the death of Aurangzeb Lahore began to decline, but in its prime a popular saying ran: "Isfahan and Shiraz together would not equal the half of Lahore".
The Persian invader Nadir Shah captured Lahore in December 1738~ when he evacuated the city in the spring of 1739 it reverted to the Mughals. On 22 January 1748 Lahore was taken and occupied by Ahmad Shah Abdali who soon retired to Qandahar and left the city to its former masters. When he invaded the Punjab for the 3rd time the Durrani defeated the Mughal governor Mir Mannu in April 1752 near Lahore. The victor formally annexed the provinces of Multan and Lahore but left the Mughal administration in place. During his 4th invasion of India Ahmad Shah advanced in the winter of 1755/56 to Sirhind, which he annexed, and to Shahjahanabad and Mathura, which he plundered. Before retreating to Afghanistan he appointed his son Taimur Shah nizam or Viceroy of Lahore, Multan, Derajat and Sindh. Taimur Shah, whose grip on the Punjab always remained precarious, was driven out of Lahore and India by Marathas led by Raghuba, the Peshwa's .brother in 1758. Sikh auxiliaries serving with Raghuba's army briefly managed to occupy Lahore, but when they anticipated the Marathas in plundering the city they were promptly expelled by their former comrades in arms. The loss of the Punjab soon brought Ahmad Shah back; in 1759 he reoccupied Lahore, sacked Delhi and on 07 January 1761 met and completely destroyed the united Maratha army near Panipat. Against the Sikhs, who fought a guerilla war and who normally tried to avoid battles between large bodies of troops, the Durranis had less success than against the more presumptuous Marathas. Although Ahmad Shah surprised and routed a Sikh army in 1762 near Bernala in a battle which among the Sikhs became known as the ghulu ghara orGreat Disaster, in 1765 the followers of Guru Gobind had recovered enough to be able to take Lahore from Kabuli Mal, its Durrani governor.
After the death of his father in 1772 Taimur Shah did not try to enforce his claim to Lahore, but his son and successor, Shah Zaman, twice invaded the Punjab and briefly occupied its capital on 03 January 1797 and again on 27 November 1798 without meeting any serious opposition. During his last stay at Lahore Shah Zaman met with Ram Dayal Kohatia, Ranjit Singh's vakil and they may then have come to an agreement concerning the future of the city. Shah Zaman left Lahore on 04 January 1799 and only/six months later, on 06 July, the young Sukar-chukia Sardar took Lahore from its three oppressive and highly unpopular Bhangi owners, the Sardars Chet Singh, Sahib Singh and Mohar Singh. It was said that Ranjit Singh then struck coins in his own name at Lahore. The expression: in his own name, a stock phrase which Indian chroniclers and historians used almost automatically, does not mean that the coins actually bear the name of the ruler by whose orders they were minted. Such coins could be anonymous as in the case of Ranjit Singh or, for economic or political reasons, even bear the name of another ruler, in India often a nominal overlord.
Ranjit Singh made Lahore his capital and it remained the seat of the government of the Sikh realm until the annexation of the Punjab by the British in 1849. The city, which John Lowrie quite correctly called the Delhi of the Punjab, was then a busy trade center on the Grand Trunk Road which dealt in cotton cloth, silk, shawls and arms. Lahore and Amritsar, its economically more important neighbour, annually paid an amount of Rs 800,000 in local and Rs 500,000 in transit duties to Ranjit Singh's toshakhania.
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