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Lot 307 - le monde arabe india - mughal empire - Numismatica Genevensis SA Public Numismatic Auction #8

Lot 307 - le monde arabe india - mughal empire - Numismatica Genevensis SA Public Numismatic Auction #8

AN EARLY PORTRAIT ON ISLAMIC COINAGE : THE FIRST PORTRAITS ON MOGHOL COINAGE, THE MOHUR OF JAHANGIR. Nur-Ud-Din Muhammad Jahangir, AH 1014-1037 (1605-1628). Mohur au portrait AH 1020-An 6 (1611). Buste de Jahangir auréolé et tenant une coupe, à droite / Lion sur fond de soleil rayonnnant, à droite. 10,74g. Fr. 758 ; KM 179.4 ; Catalogue of Oriental Coins 315 (mêmes coins). D'une importance historique primordiale. Superbe exemplaire.
Probably the finest specimen known of this attractive and rare type. The Mughal historian Muhammad Hashim Khafi Khan records that the emperor Jahangir gave orders in AH 1020 (1611) for the issue of a new coin for presentation. The Emperor ordered that this new coin 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.

Numismatica Genevensis SA Public Numismatic Auction #8

le monde arabe india - mughal empire
Lot 308 - le monde arabe india - mughal empire - Numismatica Genevensis SA Public Numismatic Auction #8

Lot 308 - le monde arabe india - mughal empire - Numismatica Genevensis SA Public Numismatic Auction #8

Nur-Ud-Din Muhammad Jahangir, AH 1014-1037 (1605-1628). Mohur zodical AH 1028-An 13 (1618), Agra. Inscription sur quatre lignes / Deux poissons tête-bêche dans un cercle radié. 10,87g. Fr. 773 ; KM 180.2 ; Mitchiner 3165. Extrêmement rare. Très bel exemplaire.
Exemplaire provenant de la collection Jonathan Rosen et de la vente Lanz 41 (mai 1987), 1162. The Emperor Jahangir records in the diary that he kept for many years, «Previously to this, the rule of the coinage was to write my name on one side of the coin and the name of the place and the month and year of the reign on the other side. It entered my mind that in place of the month they should substitute the figure of the constellation which belonged to that month ...The usage is my own, and has never been practised before.» Pisces is the sign for Bahman, the eleventh month of the ilahi year. The gold zodiacal muhurs were generally struck at the capital mint of Agra.

Numismatica Genevensis SA Public Numismatic Auction #8

le monde arabe india - mughal empire