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India / Mughal Empire, Akbar I, AH 963-1014 / AD 1556-1605, anonymous issue, rupee, undated

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India / Mughal Empire. Akbar I, AH 963-1014 / AD 1556-1605. anonymous issue rupee, undated. Qila Bandho (Bandhogarh). KM 96.1. Liddle S-21 (RRR). Zeno 62757. Silver. Diameter 17.5mm, 5mm thick, 11.37 grams. Obverse: Riwaj Sikka Allah Akbar. Reverse: Bud ba-qila Bhando barabar. XF. R3, very rare mint.

Provenance:

AH Baldwin&Sons; New York Sale XVII, Jan 9th 2008, lot 365

Bhando, better known as Bandhogarh, is a fortress of great importance near Rewa in Madhya Pradesh. Akbar's army had captured it after a siege of over eight months in the 42nd Ilahi year. Whitehead has listed this place in his "The Mint-towns of the Mughal Emerors of India" in 1912. The basis on which his information relied were two silver coins that he had seen but never published. It is said that the coins were consequently lost.
Subsequently catalogues of the Mughal coins in Lahore, Lucknow, Calcutta, and Nagpur Museums were published but none of them records any coins of this place. According to P.L. Gupta, who compiled an (not published) up-to-date catalogue of the Mughal coins in British Museum, no such a rupee is represented either.
K.K. Maheshwari in Numismatic Digest, vol.VIII (1984) p.81-82, was the first to publish a coin of this mint.
The couplet recorded on this coin reads as follows:
"Riwaj Sikka Allah Akbar / Bud ba-qila Bhando barabar"
(May the words Allahu Akbar [stamped on] the current coin be equal to the [name of] Qila [fortress] Bandho).
The coin is not dated, but it may well be presumed that the coin was issued at the time of the siege of the fortress in the 42nd Ilahi year. (extracted from http://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=26005)

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