Mughal Empire AH 1042/5 rupee KM-224.16

Steve Album sale 51, lot 2587

This specimen was lot 2587 in Steve Album Auction 51 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2025), where it sold for $42. The catalog description^[1] noted, "MUGHAL: Shah Jahan I, 1628-1658, AR rupee, Patna, AH1042 year 5, month of Azar, without any testmarks, VF." Shah Jahan is most remembered today for having built the Taj Mahal as a mausoleum for his wife. His successors after Aurangzeb (r. 1658-1707) were not able to cope with external attack, Hindu rebellion and civil war and the empire broke up in the eighteenth century. Patna struck this style years 2-5.

Recorded mintage: unknown but fairly common.

Specifications: 11.44 g, silver, this specimen 11.34 g.

Catalog reference KM-224.16.

Sources:

• 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 Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 51, featuring the Howard Daniel III Collection of Asian Coins, the Almer H. Orr III Collection of World Coins and the Joe Sedillot Collection of German Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.

Links:

• AH 1041/x rupee, Surat mint
• AH 1041/x rupee, Ahmadabad mint
• AH 1041/4 rupee, Bhakhar mint
• AH 1041/4 rupee, Tatta mint
• AH 1041/5 rupee, Kashmir mint
• AH 1041/5 rupee, Ujjain mint
• AH 1041/5 rupee, Tatta mint
• AH 1042/5 rupee, Akbarabad mint
• AH 1042/x rupee, Zafarnagar mint
• AH 1042/5 rupee, Burhanpur mint
• AH 1042/6 rupee, Jahangirnagar mint
• AH 1042/6 square rupee, Multan mint
• AH 1042/4 mohur, Burhanpur mint
• AH 1043/6 rupee, Akbarnagar mint
• AH 1043/6 rupee, Burhanpur mint
• AH 1043/6 rupee, Multan mint
• AH 1043/6 rupee, Bhakhar mint
• Coins and currency dated 1632