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Photo from Jan Lingen. Shah Jahan, pre-accession Rupee, Surat, AH1037/Ry.1.
Hodivala (Historical Studies in Mughal Numismatics (org. publ. 1923, reprint 1976), describes the extraordinary Rupee in the Punjab Museum Lahore (Cat. No. 1331) with the Kalima and the date on one side and the abnormal legend Sikkah Shah Jahan Rayej bad and points out that this is a pre-accession issue.
He quotes from contemporary European record that it was an unauthorized product of the Surat mint and disowned by Shah Ja...han himself who ordered that all coins should continue to bear the name of his father (Jahangir) up to the day of his formal coronation.
The East India Company’s factors at Ahmadabad write on the 31st of January 1628, in the following terms: “What money is coined in this town bears the Stamp of Shawselim [Shah Salim, i.e. Jahangir] by the Prince’s owne order at this being here, till he bee crowned in Dillie so that the quoyning of money in Suratt under his name is affirmed to be done by the Governour there without his order; neither will the passé here without some losse.” (English Factories in India, 1624-1629. ed. W. Foster, 232.)
“This reference to the premature coining of money at Surat is interesting,” says the editor of the Correspondence who does not appear to have known that a specimen of these unauthorized mintages has survived the ‘tooth of time’. When Hodival wrotes his notes he knew only of a single surviving specimen, the one in the Punjab Museum Lahore. R.B. Whitehead (Some notable coins of the Mughal emperors of India, (Numismatic Chronicle, 1926) writes that he knew of half a dozen specimens, but one from the British Museum which bears a unique arrangement of the superscription:
Obv.: Kalima
Sanah 1
1037
Rev.: Shah Jahan
Sikkah
Rayej bad
Zarb
Surat.

Moghul Empire – Shāh Jahān – Sūrat Mint, Gold – Type 1, Square/Square

Actual Weight (g)

Actual Diameter (mm)

Composition

Gold

Catalogue

Cat No.	Photo Link	KM	GR	Denomination	AH	RY	Provenance	Comments	Rarity
JS	√ 2658c.	260.15	10.85	Mohur	1043	7	Bald	See photos for one with a dotted square on each side
JS	2658e.			”	1044	xx
JS	√ 2658.			”	1045	8	Zeno
JS	√ 2658g.			”	1045	9	Zeno
JS	√ 2659.			”	1046	9	Bald
JS	2659c.			”	1047	10
JS	2659c3.			”	1047	11
JS	2659e.			”	1048	11
JS	2659e3.			”	1048	12
JS	√ 2659g.			”	1049	12	Zeno
JS	2659g3.			”	1064	27
JS	√ 2659i.			”	1069	32	Zeno

Mughal Empire, Shah Jahan, AV Mohur, 10.62g, Surat, ry.11 (KM.260.15), From Spink

Moghul Empire – Shāh Jahān – Sūrat Mint, Gold – Type 2, Linear/Linear

Actual Weight (g)

~11

Actual Diameter (mm)

Composition

Gold

Catalogue

Cat No.	Photo Link	KM	GR	Denomination	AH	RY	Month	Provenance	Comments	Rarity
JS	√ 2654.	254.6	10.200	Mohur	1037	1		Bald
JS	2655.			”	1038	1

Moghul Empire – Shāh Jahān – Sūrat Mint, Gold – Type 3, Linear/Linear with month

Photo from Spink

Actual Weight (g)

Actual Diameter (mm)

Composition

Gold

Catalogue

Cat No.	Photo Link	KM	GR	Denomination	AH	RY	Month	Provenance	Comments	Rarity
JS	√ 2654c.	255.6	10.245	Mohur		2	Āẕar	Kohinoor	RY 2 and month azar is much more common than other dates	C
JS	2656.			”		4				RR
JS	2657.			”		5	Tīr
JS	2657e.			”		12	Āẕar		Ref: Spink (2009), sale 9026, lot 1176

AV mohur (10.96g), Surat, year 2, month of Azar, KM-255.6, Album (2008), sale 5, lot 453

Moghul Empire – Shāh Jahān – Sūrat Mint, Gold – Type 4

Shihab al-dīn muḥammad ṣāhib qirān sani shāh jahān bādshāh ghāzī sanah 1	Kalima with ẓarb sūrat just visible at the bottom

Actual Weight (g)

Actual Diameter (mm)

Composition

Gold

Catalogue

Cat No.	Photo Link	KM	Denomination	AH	RY	Provenance	Comments	Rarity
JS	√ 2660.		Mohur	1037	1	Marudhar	NB RY written as numeral 1	RRR

Moghul Empire – Shāh Jahān – Sūrat Mint, Silver – Type 1, Square/Square

Mint name in left segment. RY in bottom right corner of square	AH in left segment

	Rupee	Half Rupee
Actual Weight (g)
Actual Diameter (mm)
Composition	Silver

Catalogue

Cat No.	Photo Link	KM	GR	Denomination	AH	RY	Provenance	Comments	Rarity
JS	2680.	235.23	10.54	Rupee	1042	6			C
JS	√ 2681.			”	1043	6	Ste
JS	√ 2682.			”	1043	7	Ste
JS	√ 2682c.			”	1044	7	Ste
JS	√ 2683.			”	1045	8	Ste
JS	√ 2684.			”	1046	9	Ste
JS	√ 2685.			”	1047	10	Ste
JS	√ 2685c.			”	1047	11	Ste
JS	√ 2686.			”	1048	12	Ste
JS	√ 2687.			”	1049		Ste
JS	√ 2687c.			”	1050	13	Ste
JS	√ 2688.			”	1050	14	Ste
JS	√ 2689.			”	1051	15	Zeno
JS	√ 2690.			”	1052	15	Ste
JS	√ 2690c.			”	1052	16	Zeno
JS	√ 2691.			”	1053	17	Ste
JS	√ 2692.			”	1054	17	Ste
JS	√ 2692c.			”	1054	18	Ste
JS	√ 2693.			”	1055	19	Ste
JS	√ 2693c.			”	1056	19	Zeno
JS	√ 2694.			”	1056	20	Zeno
JS	2695.			”	1057
JS	√ 2696.			”	1058	12	Zeno	RY error for 21
JS	√ 2696c.			”	1058	21	Zeno
JS	√ 2696e.			”	1058	22	Zeno
JS	2697.			”	1059
JS	√ 2698c.			”	1006	23	Zeno	AH error for 1060
JS	√ 2698e.			”	1060	24	Zeno
JS	√ 2699.			”	1061	24	Zeno
JS	√ 2699c.			”	1061	25	Zeno
JS	√ 2700.			”	1062	25	Ste
JS	√ 2700c.			”	1062	26	Zeno
JS	2701.			”	1063
JS	√ 2702.			”	1064	27	Ste
JS	2703.			”	1065
JS	√ 2704.			”	1066	30	Ste
JS	2705.			”	1067
JS	2706.			”	1068
JS	√ 2707.			”	1069	32	Ste but no AH
JS	2707c.			”	None	None		No date on coin (not simply not visible). See photo above	RRR
JS	2708.	218.8		Half Rupee	1044	7			S
JS	2709.			”	1045	8
JS	2710.			”	1047	9
JS	2711.			”		10
JS	2712.			”	1048	12
JS	2713.			”	1049	12
JS	√ 2714.			”		15	Zeno
JS	2715.			”		16
JS	2716.			”	1055	18
JS	2717.			”	1055	19
JS	2718.			”		21
JS	2719.			”		22
JS	√ 2720.			”		23	Zeno
JS	2721.			”		24
JS	2722.			”		25
JS	2723.			”	1065
JS	2724.			”		29
JS	2725.			”	1067	30		AH from Stan Goron
JS	2725c.			”		31

Moghul Empire – Shāh Jahān – Sūrat Mint, Silver – Type 2, Round/Round

	Rupee	Half Rupee
Actual Weight (g)
Actual Diameter (mm)
Composition	Silver

Catalogue

Cat No.	Photo Link	KM	GR	Denomination	AH	RY	Provenance	Comments	Rarity
JS	2671.	228.5	10.122	Rupee	1067	31			R
JS	2672.			”	1027	31		AH error date for 1067
JS	√ 2673.			”	1068	31	Stack
JS	√ 2674.	216.1		Half Rupee	1067	31	Zeno		RR

Moghul Empire – Shāh Jahān – Sūrat Mint, Silver – Type 3, Diamond/Diamond

	Rupee	Half Rupee
Actual Weight (g)
Actual Diameter (mm)
Composition	Silver

Catalogue

Cat No.	Photo Link	KM	GR	Denomination	AH	RY	Provenance	Comments	Rarity
JS	2676.	230.3	10.167	Rupee	1057	19
JS	√ 2677.			”	1057	20	Ste
JS	√ 2678.			”	1057	21	Ste
JS	√ 2679.	217.1		Half Rupee	1057	20	Zeno
JS	2679c.			”	xxxx	21

Moghul Empire – Shāh Jahān – Sūrat Mint, Silver – Type 4

Photo from Steve Album

	Rupee	Half Rupee
Actual Weight (g)
Actual Diameter (mm)
Composition	Silver

Catalogue

Cat No.	Photo Link	KM	GR	Denomination	AH	RY	Provenance	Comments	Rarity
JS	√ 2662.	222.13	10.196/ 207	Rupee	1037	1	Ste		S
JS	√ 2663.			”	1038	1	Ste	sa may be inside or outside noon
JS	√ 2661m.		10.197	”	1038	1	Zeno	Numeral 12 on reverse for weight of 12 mashas or reference to date of death of Muḥammad?	RR
JS	√ 2664.		10.196	”	1038	2	Ste		S
JS	2664c.			”	1039
JS	√ 2665.			”	1040		Ste
JS	√ 2666.			”	1041		Zeno
JS	√ 2667.			”	1042		Ste
JS	2668.			”	1043
JS	2669.	213.2	10.196/ 207	Half Rupee	1038	1		sa may be inside or outside noon	R
JS	√ 2670.			”	1040	xx	Ste
JS	2670c.			”	1042	xx		Ref: Stan Goron
JS	2670h.			Quarter Rupee	xxxx	xx			RR

Moghul Empire – Shāh Jahān – Sūrat Mint, Silver – Type 5, Linear/Linear with month

Actual Weight (g)

Actual Diameter (mm)

Composition

Silver

Catalogue

Cat No.	Photo Link	KM	GR	Denomination	AH	RY	Month	Provenance	Comments	Rarity
JS	√ 2661p.		10.239	Rupee	xxxx	1	Isfandārmuz	Oswal but date not clear		R
JS	2661p3.			”	xxxx	3	Azar			R
JS	2661p6.			”	xxxx	4	Tir			R
JS	2661p9.			”	xxxx	4	Fārwardīn			R

Moghul Empire – Shāh Jahān – Sūrat Mint, Silver – Type 6, Linear/Linear, Mint Name Bottom

	Mint name at bottom

Actual Weight (g)

Actual Diameter (mm)

Composition

Silver

Catalogue

Cat No.	Photo Link	KM	GR	Denomination	AH	RY	Provenance	Comments	Rarity
JS	√ 2661r.		10.257	Rupee	1037	1	Zeno	RY written as numeral 1	R
JS	√ 2661r3.			Half Rupee	1037	1	Zeno	RY written as numeral 1	R

Moghul Empire – Shāh Jahān – Sūrat Mint, Silver – Type 7, Linear/Linear, raij

Do chasme he (also called rounded letter)

Actual Weight (g)

Actual Diameter (mm)

Composition

Silver

Catalogue

Cat No.	Photo Link	GR	KM	Denomination	AH	RY	Provenance	Comments	Rarity
JS	√ 2675.	10.316	221.1	Rupee	1037	1	Bald, ClassNG		R
JS	2675c	10.317	221.2	Rupee	xxxx	1			R
JS	2675e.	10.316		Half Rupee	1037	1			R

Moghul Empire – Shāh Jahān – Sūrat Mint, Silver – Type 8, Square Flan

Actual Weight (g)

Actual Diameter (mm)

Composition

Silver

Catalogue

Cat No.	Photo Link	KM	GR	Denomination	AH	RY	Provenance	Comments	Rarity
JS	2726.	236.3	10.321	Rupee	xxxx	xx			RR

Moghul Empire – Shāh Jahān – Sūrat Mint, Copper

	Dam	Half Dam	Quarter Dam
Actual Weight (g)	~20	~10	~5
Actual Diameter (mm)
Composition	Copper

Catalogue

Cat No.	Photo Link	KM	Denomination	AH	RY	Provenance	Comments	Rarity
JS	2727.	206.6	Dam	1042	7
JS	2728.		”		9
JS	2728c.		”		29
JS	2729.		”	1067	30
JS	√ 2730.		”		32	Mitresh Singh
JS	√ 2730c.	204.4	Half Dam		29	Ste
JS	2731.	202	Quarter Dam		29			RRR