Mughal Empire AH1049/12 mohur Fr-801
This specimen was lot 889 in Stephen Album sale 45 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2023), where it sold for $2,280. The catalog description[1] noted, "MUGHAL: Shah Jahan I, 1628-1658, AV mohur, Burhanpur, AH1049, an attractive nearly mint state example, PCGS graded AU58." Shah Jahan is most remembered today for having built the Taj Mahal as a mausoleum for his wife. Twenty-five mints struck mohurs for him and Burhanpur is listed in this style for years 4-32. His successors after Aurangzeb (r. 1658-1707) were not able to cope with external attack, Hindu rebellion and civil war and the empire broke up in the eighteenth century.
Recorded mintage: unknown but scarcer than the mohurs of Aurangzeb.
Specifications: 10.8-10.9 g, gold, this specimen 10.90 g.
Catalog reference: KM-260.6, Fr-801.
- Album, Stephen, Checklist of Islamic Coins, 3rd Ed. Santa Rosa, Stephen Album Rare Coins, 2011.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 45, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2022.
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