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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 784672, member: 66&quot;]The 1000 mohur was stuck by Jahangir (1605 - 1627) Mughal ruler of India.&nbsp; Until it turned up in 1987 it was only known to have existed from contemporay writings and a cast of the piece that was in the British Museum.&nbsp; (contemporary records account for at least three pieces being made)&nbsp; It turned up along with a 100 Mohur piece of his son Shah Jahan (fifh Mughal ruler 1628 - 1658). I don&#039;t know when the 1000 Mohur was struck but the 100 Mohur was 1639.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1000 Mohur coin was 20.3 cm in diameter and weighed 11,935.8 grams.&nbsp; The 100 Mohur was 9.5 cm in diameter and weighed 1094.5 grams.&nbsp; They were authenticated by Dr Michael Bales, Islamic Curator of the American Numismatic Society.</p><p><br /></p><p>They were put up for auction in late 1987 in Switzerland, I don&#039;t have the name of the auction house at hand. The 100 Mohur was bid to $3,000,000 ($3,450,000 with buyers premium) against a reserve of 4 million.&nbsp; The 1000 Mohur was bid to $8,000,000 ($9,200,000 with the juice and note this is 14 years before the 1933 double eagle and at the time no other coin had yet broken the million dollar mark.) against a reserve of ten million dollars.&nbsp; Even with these offers having been made the onsignor chose to keep the coins and not sell them.&nbsp; They have not reappeared since then.&nbsp; As far as I can tell they are owned by someone named Mukarrum Jah.&nbsp; This is a picture of the 1000 Mohur</p><p><img src="http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1600_1699/jahangir/hugecoin/hugecoin.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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