India

Kumaragupta I, AR Drachm, Garuda type, Kumar variety B

 

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Nur-ud-din Jahangir [Salim] S/o Akbar (1605-1627). Struck: AH 1024 - RY 10 [1615]. Weight: 11.45g. AR Rupee KM#149.2 Mint: Ahmedabad.
Obv: "نورالدین جهانگیر بادشاه غازی" (Nur-ud-din Jahangir Badshah Ghazi) / 1024.
Rev: "ماه آذَر الهی" (Month Azar of Ilahi Year) "بنام شاه نورالدین جهانگیر مزین باد" (May it be beautified by the name of Shah Nur-ud-din Jahangir)

Note: Scarce type. "Muzaiyan" poetic couplet. Meaning of the word Muzaiyan is adorned, embellished, decorate, and beautified. Jahangir was the 4th Emperor of the Mughal dynasty ruling from 1605 to 1627 AD.

 

Mughal, Aurangzeb, AR Rupee, Itawa, AH1100-Ry.32

 

If things go well at the Stephen Album Rare Coins Auction 49 today, I will have two more interesting coins for this thread by the end of the day.

 

Kushan Gold Dinar of Kipunada (minted sometime between 335 and 350):

 

Sultanate of Malwa Gold Square Tanka of Ghiyath Shah (minted in either 1483 or 1484):

 

Malwa Sultans, Ghiyath Shah, AR 1/2 Tanks, AH(8)78

 

View looking along a bazaar at Bundi taken by Gunpatrao Abajee Kale, c.1900. Public Domain via Wikipedia.


Bundi, Ram Singh, Silver Rupee (10.58g, 19.6mm), VS 1950 / 1893 CE, in the name of Queen Victoria
Obv: Queen Victoria, katar (a type of push dagger)
Rev:"bundi","ramsingh", "1950" (VS year)
Ref: KMY #9

 

Bundi, Raghubir Singh/Edward VII, AR Rupee, VS1966/AD1909

 

I realize that my coin from 1893 (VS 1950) should be Raghubir Singh/Victoria as he ruled 1889-1927. I will have to add Edward to my wishlist

 

Bundi, Ram Singh/Victoria, AR Rupee, VS1922-AD1865.

 

Mughal Silver Shahrukhi of Babur (minted in Badakhshan in either 1509 or 1510):

 

Mughal Silver Shahrukhi of Humayun (minted in Kandahar in either 1543 or 1544):

 

Mughal Empire, Aurangzeb Alamgir, AR Rupee, Lahore, AH1107/Ry.39

 

Jodhpur Gold 1/2 Mohur of Sumer Singh (minted in 1911):

 

Afghani Silver Rupee of Mahmud Shah Durrani (minted in Peshawar in either 1815 or 1816):

 

Mughal Silver Rupee of Muhammad Shah (minted in Lahore in either 1744 or 1745):

 

Hyderabad, Mir Usman Ali Khan, AR Rupee, AH1337/Ry.8 (AD1919)
(Yes, I have 2 of these)

 

Greco-Bactrian Silver Tetradrachm of Eucratides the Great (minted sometime between 170 and 145 BCE):

 

Indo-Greek, Apollodotus II, AR Drachm, c.80-60 BC