Mughal Empire AH 1130/7 rupee KM-377.44
This specimen was lot 2396 in Steve Album Auction 55 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2026), where it sold for $180. The catalog description[1] noted, "MUGHAL: Farrukhsiyar, 1713-1719, AR rupee, Lakhnau, year 7, NGC graded MS62. The slab has the Hijri date 1130 but if so, it is completely off flan!" The Mughal Empire dominated India during the seventeenth century but broke up in the eighteenth century under external attack, Hindu rebellion and civil war. This collapse allowed European colonizers entry into the subcontinent and eventual British control. This type is listed from at least seventy mints in India. It was struck at Lucknow years 1 thru 7 and is common. Lakhnau is today the capital of Uttar Pradesh state. It was conquered by the Mughals in 1555 and became the capital of the semi-independent Nawab of Awadh in the mid-eighteenth century.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specifications: 11.0-11.6 g, silver.
Catalog reference: KM-377.44.
- 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:
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- AH 1129/6 rupee, Parenda mint
- AH 1129/6 rupee, Shahjahanabad (Delhi) mint
- AH 1130/7 rupee, Akbarabad (Agra) mint
- AH 1130/7 rupee, Bankapur mint
- AH 1130/7 rupee, Gwalior mint
- AH 1130/7 rupee, Ujjain mint
- AH 1126/3 rupee, Akbarnagar mint
- AH 1130/7 mohur, Shahjahanabad mint
- AH 1131/1 rupee, Ahmadabad mint, Rafi-ud-Darjat
- AH 1131/1 rupee, Lahore mint, Rafi-ud-Darjat
- AH 1131/1 rupee, Tatta mint, Shah Jahan II
- AH 1131/1 rupee, Murshidabad mint, Shah Jahan II
- Coins and currency dated 1718