Afghanistan AH 1284 qandahari rupee
This specimen was lot 2081 in Steve Album Auction 54 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2026), where it sold for $115. The catalog description[1] noted, "BARAKZAI: Muhammad A'zam, 1866-1868, AR qandahari rupee, Qandahar, AH1284, VF, RR." The SCWC lists rupees only from the Kabul mint but mentions a half rupee from Qandahar (KM 201). Wikipedia comments,
"Mohammad Azam Khan Barakzai (1820–1869) was briefly the Emir of Afghanistan from 7 October 1867 to 21 August 1868. He was born in 1820, and was the fifth son of Dost Mohammad Khan. He was an ethnic Pashtun belonging to the Barakzai tribe. Azam Khan succeeded his brother Mohammad Afzal Khan after the latter's death from cholera on 7 October 1867. Sher Ali Khan was reinstated as Emir of Afghanistan and his forces captured Kabul on 21 August 1868. Sher Ali himself entered Kabul on 8 September 1868. Mohammad Azam Khan fled to Sistan and then to Iran, where he died in 1870."
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 5.54 g.
Catalog reference: A-3173, KM unlisted.
- Album, Stephen, Checklist of Islamic Coins, 3rd Ed. Santa Rosa, Stephen Album Rare Coins, 2011.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Hanbing Feng, Auction 54, featuring selections from the Kenneth A. Bovenkamp Collection of Ottoman Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2025.
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