Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Heavy Mohur - Jahangir Kanbayat mint
| Issuer | Mughal Empire |
|---|---|
| Year | 1618 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | The obverse field is entirely occupied by a bold, deeply struck Nasta'liq calligraphic legend arranged in three sweeping diagonal lines across the coin's face, reading the imperial titles and name of Emperor Jahangir. Decorative floral rosettes and lozenge-shaped ornaments are interspersed between and around the lines of text, serving as both aesthetic embellishments and word dividers. The Hijri regnal year 1027 appears in Eastern Arabic numerals along the lower portion of the field. The entire design is enclosed within a plain inner border and a distinctive outer border of raised beads, characteristic of Mughal hammered gold coinage of this period. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Arabic |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Jahangir's heavy mohurs — struck at twice the weight of the standard mohur — were almost certainly prestige pieces rather than working currency. The Kanbayat (Cambay) mint operated under Mughal authority in Gujarat, a region whose port trade made it one of the wealthiest provincial centers in the empire. Jahangir himself was a compulsive documenter of his own reign, and his memoir the Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri records his obsessive interest in fine craftsmanship, which extended directly to coinage.
KM# 180.1 distinguishes the Kanbayat issue from heavy mohurs of other mints by its specific die arrangement — a meaningful distinction given how few examples surface at auction.