Two special coins minted during the Mughal period are back in the limelight with the Centre renewing its efforts to trace them. One of them weighing about 12 kg is the biggest and heaviest gold coin ever minted in the world, and it was minted during the reign of Emperor Jahangir, who referred to it as Kaukab-i-Tali. The other one weighing a kilo belonged to Emperor Shahjahan.
Act 1 involves the Asaf Jahi dynasty: Both of these were last seen with the Asaf Jahi dynasty. Since then historians and CBI officers have together tried to piece together the jigsaw puzzle of how the coins went from the Great Mughals to the Nizams of Hyderabad and maybe together they will be able to also track down where the coins are today.
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