World Silver & Bronze Coins - Egypt - India

Lot 3072    SESSION 12 (11.30AM WEDNESDAY 1ST SEPTEMBER)    World Silver & Bronze Coins - Egypt - India

Estimate $5,000
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SOLD $5,000

INDIA, Mogul, Muhammad Jahangir (A.H. 1014-1037, 1605-1627 A.D.), silver Zodiacal Rupee, 'Gemini' sign, Ahmadabad Mint, AH 1027/RY 13, (11.37 g), obv. Sign of Gemini (as twins), with Farsi inscription Sanah 13 below, trace only, rev. Farsi inscription of Jahangir Badshah and Akbar Badshah Zarb Ahmadabad, year 1027 (1617-1618), (KM. 150.7 [VF $7000 US]). Very fine, and extremely rare.

The emperor Jahangir struck a remarkable series of figural type rupees and mohurs, unprecedented for a Muslim prince. Besides extremely rare portrait pieces, he instituted a series of Zodiacal types, each one to be struck in the corresponding month. The obverse dies were reused from year to year, new dated reverses being produced for each subsequent issue. Wheras mohurs were issued for every month, only five types of Zodiacal rupees were issued at Ahmadabad mint, a selected few similar types were struck at Agra, Fathpur and Kashmir mints all are rarer than the Ahmadabad issues. In addition, special specimen strikes were apparently produced for important visitors to the Mogul court, each receiving a coin with his Zodiac symbol.