Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction XXVII 22-23 Mar 2023
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Safavids, Sulayman II AR 30 Shahi. Type A. Mashhad mint (but mint off flan), AH 1163 = AD 1750. Kalima and 'Ali walī Allah in five lines; in outer margin the names of the twelve Shi'ite imams all in Arabic / "The shah who dispenses justice, Sulayman the second, by the grace of God struck the coins of prosperity, struck in Mashhad" in six lines in Persian, date in lower left field. Album A-T2700 (4th edition, forthcoming); cf. Album 2699, for the prototype in gold (AV double mohur with the same distribution); Zeno 256638 (this coin); Farahbakhsh -; Rabino -. 34.66g, 35mm, 11h.
Good Very Fine. Previously unpublished and of the greatest rarity, probably struck as a presentation issue by the same dies used for striking the double Mohurs.
This coin published online at Zeno.Ru-Oriental Coins Database (www.zeno.ru);
From the Arethusa collection;
Ex Professor Shir Mohammad Collection, Roma Numismatics Ltd., Auction XX, 29 October 2020, lot 774;
Privately purchased in Lahore, 4 February 1992.
This previously unknown coin is added to the exiguous production of Sulayman II. As reported by Steven Album on Zeno.ru (#256638): "The gold double mohur is well-known, as there was a small hoard of about 20-25 examples that came in the market in about the 1970s or early 1980s. There are five examples of the double mohur illustrated on CoinArchives. But silver is completely new. The denomination is 30 shahi, which is five times the weight of the 6-shahi denomination originally introduced by Nadir Shah, retained at 6.91g. That would make the 30 shahi weight at 34.56g, which is almost exactly the weight of this large piece. It will be added as type A-T2700 in the 4th edition of the Checklist".
Good Very Fine. Previously unpublished and of the greatest rarity, probably struck as a presentation issue by the same dies used for striking the double Mohurs.
This coin published online at Zeno.Ru-Oriental Coins Database (www.zeno.ru);
From the Arethusa collection;
Ex Professor Shir Mohammad Collection, Roma Numismatics Ltd., Auction XX, 29 October 2020, lot 774;
Privately purchased in Lahore, 4 February 1992.
This previously unknown coin is added to the exiguous production of Sulayman II. As reported by Steven Album on Zeno.ru (#256638): "The gold double mohur is well-known, as there was a small hoard of about 20-25 examples that came in the market in about the 1970s or early 1980s. There are five examples of the double mohur illustrated on CoinArchives. But silver is completely new. The denomination is 30 shahi, which is five times the weight of the 6-shahi denomination originally introduced by Nadir Shah, retained at 6.91g. That would make the 30 shahi weight at 34.56g, which is almost exactly the weight of this large piece. It will be added as type A-T2700 in the 4th edition of the Checklist".