Few of Shāh Jahān’s coins (A.H. 1037-1068) are of any artistic merit. The earliest form of his gold and silver has the Kalima and mint name on the obverse, and the emperor’s name and titles on the reverse (Pl. XI, 7). From the second to the fifth year solar months[66] were inscribed. From the fifth year to the end of the reign, except at the Tatta mint, where the earlier style was retained, Shāh Jahān employed a type, endless in its varieties, in which squares, circles, lozenges form borders enclosing the Kalima on the obverse and the king’s name on the reverse, while the names of the companions and their epithets are restored and appear in the obverse margins. The square border form of this type was also employed by Aurangzeb’s rivals, Murād Baḵẖ̱sh and Shāh Shujā’ (Pl. XI, 10); and Aurangzeb uses square areas to contain the inscriptions on his earlier rupees of Akbarābād (Āgra) and Jūnagarh, and for a few coins of three other mints. [66] Jahāngīr used a solar era of his own, starting from the date of his accession. The years on Shāh Jahān’s coins are lunar. Cf. Hodivala, _loc-cit._ The coins of Aurangzeb (A.H. 1068-1119) and his successors are, with a very few exceptions, monotonous in the extreme. On the obverse there is either a couplet containing the king’s name, or this inscription: “_The blessed coin of ..._,” followed by the name of the particular king. On the reverse appears, with very occasional variations, the following: “_Struck at_ (the mint name), _in the year_ (the regnal year) _of the accession associated with prosperity_.” The Hijrī date is placed on the obverse (Pl. XI, 9). Pretentious personal titles are of infrequent occurrence on Mug̱ẖal coins. Nevertheless the pretenders, Murād Baḵẖ̱sh and Shāh Shujā’, style themselves “The Second Alexander.” Shāh Jahān I, in imitation of his ancestor Tīmūr, who adopted the title “_Lord of the fortunate conjunction_” (_i.e._ of the planets), called himself “_The Second Lord of the fortunate conjunction_” (_Ṣāḥib-i-qirān s̤āni_), and eight later emperors followed his example. Jahāngīr used his princely name, Salīm, on his earliest coins from the Aḥmadābād mint (Pl. XI, 6) and on a half rupee of Kābul. On a unique rupee of Lāhor of Shāh Jahān I’s first year occurs the name Ḵẖ̱urram, while Shāh ’Ālam Bahādur placed his pre-regnal name, Mu’az̤z̤am, on coins of his first year of Tatta and Murshidābād. Coins of special interest and rarity are those struck by pretenders, particularly the rupees of Dāwar Baḵẖ̱sh of Lāhor, A.H. 1037; the coins of Shāh Shujā’, 1068, of Bīdār Baḵẖ̱t, 1202-1203; and the rupee of Jahāngīrnagar, struck by ’Az̤īmu-sh-shān in 1124. Commemorative coins of the later emperors are exceedingly scarce, but the entry of Lord Lake into Dehlī, in 1803, was marked on Shāh ’Ālam II’s gold and silver coinage of the forty-seventh year by enclosing the obverse and reverse inscriptions within a wreath of roses, shamrocks and thistles (Pl. XII, 1).