Mughal Empire AH 1120/2 rupee KM-348.27
This specimen was lot 672 in Steve Album Auction 55 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2026), where it sold for $570. The catalog description[1] noted, "MUGHAL: Shah Alam Bahadur, 1707-1712, AR rupee, Mailapur, AH1120 year 2, very rare mint for Shah Alam Bahadur; 2 banker's marks (and about 4 more on the edge), XF, RR. There are 20 Mailapur rupees filed on CoinArchives for Aurangzeb but only 2 for Shah Alam Bahadur." Mailapur may refer to Mailapur, a village in north Karnataka state, or to Malpur, a small town in eastern Gujarat state. Both seem too insignificant to have supported a mint. Shah Alam Bahadur was 64 years old when he succeeded his father, Aurangzeb, in 1707. He spent his reign quelling rebellions by his brother Kam Baksh, the Rajputs and the Sikhs.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specifications: 11.0-11.6 g, silver, this specimen 11.50 g.
Catalog reference: KM-348.27.
- 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 Hanbing Feng, Auction 55, featuring Selections from the Swamperbob Gurney Collection of Cap & Ray 8 Reales, the Kenneth A. Bovenkamp Collection of Ottoman Coins and the 1914 Collection of World Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2026.
Links:
- AH 1119/1 (1707) rupee, Burhanpur mint, Azam Shah
- AH 1119/1 rupee, Surat mint, Azam Shah
- AH 1119/1 rupee, Multan mint, Shah Alam Bahadur
- AH 1120/2 rupee, Haidarabad mint, Kam Bakhsh
- AH 1120/2 rupee, Bareli mint
- AH 1120/2 mohur, Itawa mint
- AH 1120/2 mohur, Khujista Bunyad mint
- AH 1121/3 (1709) rupee, Peshawar mint
- AH 1121/3 (1709) rupee, Khujista Bunyad mint
- Coins and currency dated 1708