Mughal Empire IE 33 rupee KM-91.1
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This specimen was lot 2307 in Steve Album Auction 55 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2026), where it sold for $312. The catalog description[1] noted, "MUGHAL: Akbar I, 1556-1605, AR square rupee, NM, IE33, legends Allah akbar // jalla jalaluhu 33 ilahi; bold strike, XF." The SCWC notes this type for years IE 30-44 but it does not seem to have mintmarks. The Ilahi Era (IE) was a solar calendar used during Akbar's reign for the dating of coinage and was abandoned a few years after his death.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specifications: 11.0-11.6 g, silver, this specimen 11.34 g.
Catalog reference: KM-91.1.
- Album, Stephen. Checklist of Islamic Coins. Santa Rosa, 1998. Stephen Album.
- 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 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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