The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 3.2.1

3.2.1

"Fate's pen wrote on the coin in letters of light, The Shāh Nūru-d-dīn Jahāngīr"; and between the lines of the verse the Creed (Kalima) was impressed. On the reverse was this couplet, in which the date of coinage was signified: — "Through this coin is the world brightened as by the sun, And the date thereof is 'Sun of Dominion' (Āftāb-i-Mamlakat)." Between the lines of the verse, the mint, the Hijra year, and the regnal year were impressed. On the nūr-jahānī, which is in the place of the ordinary gold muhr and exceeds it in weight by 20 per cent. (as 12 to 10), is impressed this couplet of the Amīru-l-umarā: — "Shāh Nūru-d-dīn Jahāngīr ibn Akbar Pādshāh Made gold's face bright with the sheen of sun and moon." Accordingly, a hemistich was impressed on each face, and also the mint, and the Hijra and regnal year. The jahangiri sikka, also, which is greater in weight by 20 per cent., was reckoned as equal to a rupee, its weight being fixed in the same manner as that of the nur-jahani (each was a tola in weight, but one was in gold and the other was in silver). The weight of a tola is 2½ misqals of Persia and Turan. It would not be good to give all the versified chronograms which were made for my accession. I therefore content myself with the one which Maktub Khan, the superintendent of the library and picture gallery, and one of my old servants, composed—