Mughal Empire AH 1040/3 rupee KM-231.2
This specimen was lot 2603 in Steve Album Auction 51 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2025), where it sold for $228. The catalog description[1] noted, "MUGHAL: Shah Jahan I, 1628-1658, AR rupee, Burhanpur, AH1040 year 3, scarce type struck only at Akbarabad AH1039-1043, without any testmarks, 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. This specimen was catalogued by the auctioneers as KM 233.1, which is an issue of Akbarabad. Burhanpur struck this style year 3 only.
Recorded mintage: unknown but somewhat scarce.
Specifications: 11.44 g, silver, this specimen 11.43 g.
Catalog reference: KM-231.2.
- 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, 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