Kankurti AH (11)64/1 rupee
This specimen was lot 711 in Steve Album Auction 54 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2026), where it sold for $510. The catalog description[1] noted, "HYDERABAD FEUDATORY: KANKURTI: AR rupee, Kankurti, AH(11)64 year one (ahad), in the name of the Mughal Ahmad Shah Bahadur, bold XF-AU, R." We note rupees from the Kankurti mint from the reign of Farrukhsiyar (KM 377.38, AH 1129/6), Muhammed Shah (KM 436.35, AH 1139, 1142, 1149) and Alamgir II (KM 460.42, undated). We're taking the auctioneer's dating on faith because the only number we see is a partial "١١٨" (118x) on the right of the reverse. Wikipedia comments, "Kandakurthi is a village in Ranjal mandal of Nizamabad district in the Indian state of Telangana. As of 2011, the village had a ...population of 4,563." We don't know when the village fell out of Mughal control.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 11.46 g.
Catalog reference: KM-, cf, Zeno-318872.
- 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 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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