Mughal Empire (1713)/1 rupee KM-376
This specimen was lot 557 in Stephen Album sale 50 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2024), where it sold for $180. The catalog description[1] noted, "MUGHAL: Farrukhsiyar, 1713-1719, AR rupee, Tatta, year one (ahad), with special couplet, naming Ahmad as sahib qiran salis, 'the third lord of the auspicious conjunction', phrase used only for this mint & year, without any testmarks, strong VF, RR, ex Paul Stevens Collection, ex SARC Auction 23 Lot 1589." The SCWC lists this type, struck only at Tatta, for AH 1124-1125, both with regnal date 1. The date is off the planchet on this example so we can only date it to circa 1713. The regular rupee (type 377) was struck at 63 mints and is common.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 11.0-11.6 g, silver, this specimen 11.33 g.
Catalog reference: KM-376.
- Album, Stephen. Checklist of Islamic Coins. Santa Rosa, 1998. Stephen Album.
- 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.
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