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Auction: 355 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale at NY INC, Grand Hyatt
Lot: 265

India, Mughal Empire, Jahangir (1605-28), gold Zodiac Mohur, Cancer the Crab, 10.91g, Kashmir, AH1034, regnal year 20 (1624), crab framed by 47 sun rays, within a plain circular border with beads in outer margin, rev. Persian legend be hukam shah jahangir yaft sad zewar
ba name nur jahan badshah begum zar
zarb Kashmir, 20, 1034
(By order of Shah Jahangir a hundred ornaments gained
Gold in the name of the empress Nur Jahan
Struck in Kashmir, (year) 20, 1034),
some small test punches, very fine / about very fine, of the highest degree of rarity, no other gold Mohur of Kashmir recorded, category A, undisputed original strike

provenance
Chicago International Coin Fair Auction, 30th May 1980, lot 299
J. Schulman, Amsterdam, 15th-17th February 1966, lot 1635
Ex. Mr Hatfield
Ex. collection of Dr da Cunha, sold Sotheby's, London, 1889, lot 615
Ex collection of James Gibbs , member of Bombay branch of Royal Asiatic Society, JBBRAS December 1878 (no.XXXVI, Vol.XIV, pp.155-159)

Sold for
$300,000

Starting price
$300000