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.