Mughal Empire AH 1184/12 rupee KM-709.1
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This specimen was lot 2418 in Steve Album Auction 55 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2026), where it sold for $312. The catalog description[1] noted, "MUGHAL: Shah Alam II, 1759-1806, AR rupee, Shahjahanabad, AH1184 year 12, a lovely lustrous mint state example! PCGS graded MS63." This type was struck years 1-14 and is fairly common. By the end of Shah Alam's reign, the Mughal Empire had shrunk to the point where the Shahjahanabad (Delhi) mint was the only one under the emperor's direct control.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specifications: 11.0-11.6 g, silver, this specimen 11.35 g.
Catalog reference: KM-709.1.
- 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.
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