Mughal Empire AH 1040/3 rupee KM-229.2
This specimen was lot 2601 in Steve Album Auction 51 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2025), where it sold for $60. The catalog description[1] noted, "MUGHAL: Shah Jahan I, 1628-1658, AR rupee, Burhanpur, AH1040 year 3, 1 tiny testmark, bold strike, scarce type, choice 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. Burhanpur struck this style years 2, 3, 4 along with Akbarabad and Shajahanabad.
Recorded mintage: unknown but slightly scarce.
Specifications: 11.44 g, silver, this specimen 11.43 g.
Catalog reference: KM-229.2.
- 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 1039/2 rupee, Patna mint
- AH 1039/3 rupee, Multan mint
- AH 1039/2 mohur, Akbarabad mint
- AH 1040 rupee, Surat mint
- AH 1040/3 rupee, Tatta mint
- AH 1040/3 rupee, Multan mint
- AH 1040/3 rupee, with hexalobe, Burhanpur mint
- AH 1040/3 mohur, Burhanpur mint
- AH 1040/4 rupee, Ujjain mint
- AH 1040/4 rupee, Burhanpur mint
- 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
- Coins and currency dated 1630