Mughal Empire AH 1062/25 rupee KM-235.23
This specimen was lot 2604 in Steve Album Auction 51 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2025), where it sold for $102. The catalog description[1] noted, "MUGHAL: Shah Jahan I, 1628-1658, AR rupee, Akbarabad, AH1060 year 24, without any testmarks, XF." 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. Akbarabad struck this style years 4-30. The type 235 is probably the most common of Shah Jahan's rupees, being struck at three dozen mints.
Recorded mintage: unknown but common.
Specifications: 11.44 g, silver, this specimen 11.40 g.
Catalog reference KM-235.3.
- 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.
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