Mughal Empire AH 1100/33 rupee KM-300.66
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This specimen was lot 2193 in Steve Album Auction 54 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2026), where it sold for $312. The catalog description[1] noted, "MUGHAL: Aurangzeb, 1658-1707, AR rupee, Narnol, AH1100 year 33, superb strike with full mint name, bold XF." The SCWC lists 116 mints for the type 300 rupee, which was struck at Narnol years 30-34. Narnol, today Narnaul in Haryana state, was southwest of Delhi and northwest of Agra. In the eighteenth century, as the Mughal Empire crumbled after Aurangzeb's death, it passed to the Marathas.
Recorded mintage: unknown but a better mint.
Specification: 11.0-11.6 g, silver, this specimen 11.40 g.
Catalog reference: KM-300.66.
- 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 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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