Coins Of India - Mughal Coins

Akbar .. Copper - 20gms - Dam - Malpur mint...a difficult find

Copper - 2.2gms - Tanka series - 1/16 Tanka = 1/8 Dam....Issued in the Aban month of Ilahi year.

And finally a Mohur - Au - 11gms.



This is all I can offer you now on Mughal coins. Comments, queries and corrections are welcome. I will be in the look out for your posts. I shall be posting another thread for coins of Malwa sultans shortly. Thanks for being with me! .

Here is a copper coin of Humayun (1530-1540 and 1555.AD) with difference in calligraphy.

Love the mohur ! (:

@brokencompass: Thank you for the comment. These are my coins only. I identified all these coins myself and that was a real challenge. And I am very happy that the pictures are proving useful.

@10xloupe: Mughal calligraphy is one of the most diverse of its kind. Thanks for the comments.

@Smallcentguy: I am happy only to help you with whatever little I know about the coins you have. Please post pictures and I shall be trying my luck. Thanks.

Hi!10xloupe, indeed it was fun and I never felt tired of it. I bought them over a few years when they were not as expensive as they are now. Most of the copper coins were bought a few at a time 10-15 years back at prices around $1-2, save a few rare ones. For the Silver pieces, generally I had to pay around $20-25 save a few expensive ones.

I live in the extreme South of Indian peninsula where we do not come across coin shops that often. There are a few dealers in coins who visit our place. They have been my main source.

This collection was built up in around 30years. So by the time medieval coins became hard to get, I was fortunate enough to have formulated a relatively sizable collection.

Some coins bought unidentified at a low price later became gem pieces after identification. Khan Desh coins (not yet posted) that are very rare and a few Delhi sultanate coins fall in that group. Among the Mughal coins, dams from the mints Malpur, Saharanpur, Kashmir etc also are scarce. So to speak, work and a bit of luck have worked together in my case! Thanks.