Islamic coin – HCR19451

Obverse

Design:

Persian inscription in field, enclosed by plain and pointillate circles

Reverse

Design:

Persian inscription in field, enclosed by plain and pointillate circles

Information

Period

Islamic

Dynasty

Durrānīs

Reign

Aḥmad Shāh

Person

Aḥmad Shāh, 1747 - 1773 (ruler/authority)

Mint

Shāhjahānābād (Delhi) (Islamic)

Denomination

rupee

Material

silver

Technique

struck

Dating

1173 AH (=AD 1759-1760)

Note

struck on broad thin flan (nazarana style, i.e., thin broad flan with full impressions of the dies

Measurements
Acquisition
Additional information
Ticket
References
Credit

Weight (g)

11.196

Axis

Diameter (mm)

37.4

Acquisition method

purchase ('bought')

Acquisition date

1966

Source

M. Thorburn

formerly mounted, now mount removed

Translation (obverse)

The order came from the Peerless Powerful One to (Ahmad Padshah) to strike coin on gold and silver from the ascension of Pisces to the Moon, 1173

Script (obverse)

Persian

Translation (reverse)

Struck (in) the house of the Caliph, Shāhjahānābād, in the year of the accession of prosperous fortune, 14

Script (reverse)

Persian

Reference

SICA 9 : 893

This specimen

Yes

Contributors to this coin record

TJonson