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<span style="line-height:115%;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;">Jahangir (AH 1014-1037 /1605-1627 AD), Agra Mint, Gold Heavy Mohur (Sawai Type) 25% Overweight, Small Flan, AH 1018 /4 RY, ‘Khusru-e-Giti Panah’&nbsp;Couplet, Obv:&nbsp;<span style="line-height:115%;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;">Persian legend<span style="line-height:115%;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;"> <span style="line-height:115%;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;">“Sikka zad dar shahr-e Agra Khusru-e giti panah” (Struck in the city of Agra, the refuge of the world) &amp; AH 1018, <span style="line-height:115%;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;">Rev: <span style="line-height:115%;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;">Persian legend Shah-e Noor-ud-din Jahangir ibn Akbar Badshah”(Shah Noor-ud-din Jahangir, son of Akbar Badshah) Regnal Year 4,&nbsp;<span style="line-height:115%;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;">13.61g, 26.73mm, (KM # 185.1), <span style="line-height:115%;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;">no test marks, centrally struck with minor flatness, yet highly attractive, displaying a lovely floral scroll design in the fields. well-preserved with strong calligraphy, about extremely fine,<span style="line-height:115%;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;"> Exceedingly Rare.

Note: Upon ascending the throne in AH 1014, Emperor Jahangir ordered an increase in the weight of the imperial coinage by 20%, resulting in the introduction of heavy silver rupees known as Jahangiri rupees and their gold counterpart, the Nur-Jahani mohur.<o:p></o:p>After three years, the emperor further increased the weight by an additional 5%, creating coins that were 25% heavier than the standard. These were termed “Sawai” (one and a quarter) rupees and mohurs. Thus, coins of regnal years 1–3 are 20% overweight, while those of regnal years 4–6, such as the present specimen, are 25% overweight.<o:p></o:p>As recorded in the Tuzuk-e-Jahangiri, Jahangir later acknowledged that multiple weight standards caused complications in trade. Consequently, heavy coinages were discontinued after the 6th regnal year, and normal-weight issues resumed from RY 7, standardized at 11 mashas for silver.<o:p></o:p>The Sawai gold mohurs were struck in very limited quantities, intended primarily as presentation pieces for court officials and foreign dignitaries rather than for circulation. Jahangir, a known connoisseur of the fine arts, personally dictated the specifications of many of his novel coin types (Rogers &amp; Beveridge, Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri, London, 1909).<o:p></o:p>As with much of Jahangir’s innovative and artistically refined gold coinage, the Sawai mohur represents the pinnacle of Mughal imperial craftsmanship and remains among the most coveted gold issues of the Mughal series.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;

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