Afghanistan AH 1213 rupee KM-388
This specimen was lot 2302 in Stephen Album sale 50 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2024), where it sold for $120. The catalog description[1] noted, "DURRANI: Shah Zaman, 1793-1801, AR rupee, Mashhad, AH1213, struck by the Afsharid ruler Nadir II, but in the name of his protector Shah Zaman; lovely strike, choice VF-XF, R." The Durranis or Saddozais established themselves in Afghanistan in the 1750's but had lost large chunks of their empire during the reign of Shah Zaman. This type was struck AH 1212-1215; varieties and mulings exist. The very similar KM E640, also from the Mashhad mint, has the date on the obverse. Shah Zaman was captured and blinded by his brother Mahmud Shah in 1801 but survived in exile until 1845.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 11.4-11.6 g, silver, 21.5 mm diameter, this specimen 11.44 g.
Catalog reference: A-3108, KM-388.
- Album, Stephen, Checklist of Islamic Coins, 3rd Ed. Santa Rosa, Stephen Album Rare Coins, 2011.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 50, featuring selections from the Dr. Robert A. Rosenfeld Collection, the Hakim Hamidi Collection, the Almer H. Orr III Collection and the Solar Collection, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.
Link to:
- AH 1208 rupee, Ahmadshahi mint
- AH 1208 rupee, Balkh mint
- AH 1211/5 (1796) rupee, Kabul mint, Shah Zaman
- AH 1212(7) (1797) rupee, Derajat mint
- Afghanistan (1797-98)/2 2 rupees, Kabul mint, Shah Zaman
- AH 1214 (1799) rupee, Mashhad mint, Shah Zaman
- AH 1218/1 2 rupees, Bahawalpur mint
- AH 1218 (1803) mohur, Herat mint
- Coins and currency dated 1798