Mughal Empire AH 105x/20 1/2 rupee KM-218.7

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Steve Album sale 51, lot 2567

This specimen was lot 2567 in Steve Album Auction 51 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2025), where it sold for $42. The catalog description[1] noted, "MUGHAL: Shah Jahan I, 1628-1658, AR 1/2 rupee, Patna, year 20, 3 testmarks (one of them on the edge), F-VF." Shah Jahan is most remembered today for having built the Taj Mahal as a mausoleum for his wife. 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. Patna struck this scarce type years 7-12, 18, 20 along with thirteen other mints.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specifications: 5.72 g, silver, this specimen 5.68 g.

Catalog reference: KM-218.7.

Sources:

  • 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.

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