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Mughals : Jahangir

Currency:INR Category:Coins & Paper Money / Indian Coins - Mughal Empire Start Price:3,950,000.00 INR Estimated At:3,500,000.00 - 4,000,000.00 INR
Mughals : Jahangir
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Jahangir, Gold Mohur,10.95g, Agra Mint, Ilahi Month Aban, AH 1024 /RY 10, Obv: Persian legend “Noor al-Din Jahangir Shah Akbar Shah”, Rev: Ilahi Month, AH date, RY and Mint name. About uncirculated, exceedingly rare.
Coinage of Agra mint epitomizes Jahangir’s passion for his issues – many of his experimentation with coins is best illustrated at Agra. The coins are all a paragon of numismatic beauty in terms of their design, calligraphy and when employed, literary elements like poetry.
Jahangir’s experiments began soon after his accession, by revising the weight standards of his coins. After he abolished the Sawai standard on 11 Ardibihisht of AH 1020/ RY 6, Jahangir issued a series of highly decorative coins of normal weight. At Agra, Gold coins were struck with various decorative borders, while rupees for alternate months rupees were struck in square and round shape using the Ilahi era - Farwardin (round), Ardibihisht (square), Khurdad (round), Tir (square), Amardad (round), Shahrewar (square), Mihr (round), Aban (square), Azar (round), Di (square), Bahman (round) and Isfandarmuz (square).
This series continued till RY 8 and was followed by another, more standardized series, where gold coins were struck in round shape with calligraphy on Thuluth version of the Naskh script only bearing the name and patronymic of Jahangir. Silver continued to be struck in alternate shapes but with a standard decorative format.
This coin, in a fantastic state of preservation, is a part of this series. The month/AH/RY combination is not listed on Zeno and not represented in the British Museum collection. The skills of the die engraver (muhrkun) here are of the highest order, faithfully copying the calligrapher using a metal-tip qalam, and embellishing it with a backdrop of slender floral decoration. Its issue falls in the period when Jahangir had left Agra and moved his court to Ajmer to conduct a campaign against the Rana of Udaipur.
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