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India / Mughal Empire, Akbar I, AH 963-1014 / AD 1556-1605, Rupee, AH 986 / AD 1578

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India / Mughal Empire. Akbar I, AH 963-1014 / AD 1556-1605. Rupee, AH 986 / AD 1578. Dar al-Sultanat Fathpur. Lane-Poole 124. Mitchiner 3046 (similar). KM 82.2. Liddle S-35. Zeno 49124. Silver. Square, 20mm × 20mm, 11.43 grams. Obverse: khallad Allah te'ala mulkahu 986 / Mohammed Akbar badshah / Jalal ed-din ghazi / zarb dar es-sultanat Fatehpur. Reverse: Centre: Kalima. Around: four successors (clockwise, starting at left): bi-sudq Abi Bekr / bi-'adl 'Umar / bi-haya 'Uthman / bi-'ilm 'Ali. XF/AU.

Provenance:

Ex. Michael Sarnefors Collection; AH Baldwin&Sons, May 3rd 2006, Sale 45, lot 1053

Akbar became extremely impressed by the prophecy of Shaikh Salim Chisti, living at Sikri who told the emperor that he would have three sons. When this also happened, Akbar resolved to build an entirely new capital at Sikri in honour of the Shaikh. In 1571 the building activities for the new city got started. For its name the word Fathpur, denoting victory, was added to that of the existing village, Sikri. Fatpur Sikri was only fully inhabited for some fourteen years and from 1585, when Akbar moved his court to the Punjab, it became slowly abandoned and it never again recovered its brief magnificence. Today Fatpur Sikri is the world's most perfectly preserved ghost town. Rupees of Akbar of Fathpur are known for a few years, viz.: AH985 - 989.
Jahangir, on its way from Gujarat to Agra, stopped for three months at Fathpur Sikri, as a plague had broken out at the capital Agra. During this short stay the very rare zodiacal coin of Aries, dated AH1028/Ry.14, was struck at Fathpur mint. No later coins are known from this mint (http://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=26004)

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