Mughal Empire AH 1038/2 rupee KM-225.1
This specimen was lot 652 in Steve Album Auction 51 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2025), where it sold for $5,400. The catalog description[1] noted, "MUGHAL: Shah Jahan I, 1628-1658, AR square rupee, Akbarabad, year 2, special issue, produced at Akbarabad and Lahore only in AH1038; one of the rarest of all silver coins of Shah Jahan; 2 small testmarks; of the highest rarity and almost never offered for sale! VF, RRR. Although originally published by Whitehead in 1926, KM was never able to acquire an illustration for their catalogs." The emperor Shah Jahan is today remembered for erecting the Taj Mahal for his wife.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specifications: 11.44 g, silver, this specimen 11.39 g.
Catalog reference: KM-225, Zeno-139717 (same dies).
- 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.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 51, featuring the Howard Daniel III Collection of Asian Coins, the Almer H. Orr III Collection of World Coins and the Joe Sedillot Collection of German Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.
Links:
- AH 1037/21 rupee, Surat mint
- AH 1037/22 (1627) rupee, Patna mint
- AH 1037/1 rupee, Surat mint
- AH 1037/1 rupee, Burhanpur mint
- (1628) rupee, Golconda mint
- AH 1037/1 mohur, Ahmadabad mint
- AH 1037/x rupee, Patna mint
- AH 1038/2 rupee, Agra mint
- AH 1038/2 rupee, Multan mint
- AH 1038/2 mohur, Surat mint
- AH 1039/3 rupee, Multan mint
- Coins and currency dated 1628