Stephen Album Rare Coins
Auction 18 16-18 January 2014
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MUGHAL: Jahangir, 1605-1628, AV portrait mohur (10.74g), NM, AH1020 year 6, KM-179.4, BMC-315 (same dies), bust of Jahangir left, radiate, wearing turban with egret, holding goblet in right hand & book in left hand, Persian legend either side reading shabih jahangir shah akbar shah at left and sana shesh julus to right, the regnal year is indicated by the Persian word shesh for the numeral 6 / lion to right surmounted by sun, Persian legend under, hijri and 1020 in numerals, within double circles with dots between, NGC graded AU58, RRR.
The Mughal historian Muhammad Hashim Khafi Khan records that the emperor Jahangir gave orders in AH1020 (AD 1611) for the issue of a new coin, a commemorative type for presentation. The Emperor ordered that a gold mohur, with the image of himself on one side and a lion surmounted by a sun on the other 'should be given to favourite Amirs or most devoted servants, and that they were to wear it respectfully on the sash of the turban or on the breast front as a life preserving amulet'. The inscription on the coin is in Persian and translates as: 'A likeness of Jahangir Shah, son of Akbar Shah, in the year six of his reign'. A similar example sold in Heritage Auctions 3021 lot 22005 in January 2013 for $84,000. This example is slightly nicer, in our opinion, a superb strike, and possibly the best struck and finest known example of this great rarity.
Estimate: 60,000- 80,000 USD
The Mughal historian Muhammad Hashim Khafi Khan records that the emperor Jahangir gave orders in AH1020 (AD 1611) for the issue of a new coin, a commemorative type for presentation. The Emperor ordered that a gold mohur, with the image of himself on one side and a lion surmounted by a sun on the other 'should be given to favourite Amirs or most devoted servants, and that they were to wear it respectfully on the sash of the turban or on the breast front as a life preserving amulet'. The inscription on the coin is in Persian and translates as: 'A likeness of Jahangir Shah, son of Akbar Shah, in the year six of his reign'. A similar example sold in Heritage Auctions 3021 lot 22005 in January 2013 for $84,000. This example is slightly nicer, in our opinion, a superb strike, and possibly the best struck and finest known example of this great rarity.
Estimate: 60,000- 80,000 USD