MUGHAL : Jahangir: Silver heavy rupee (Jahangiri), Kashmir, Dated Specimen ; VERY RARE

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MUGHAL : Jahangir: Silver heavy rupee (Jahangiri), Kashmir, Dated Specimen ; VERY RARE
Obverse : Persian couplet “sakhat nurani”
Reverse : AH date 1020 and mint Kashmir below ;
Weight : 13.60 Grams ; Reference KM —155.3
Note : At one point, Jahangir experimented with a new denomination, in which the silver weight was 20% higher than in the rupee; this new coin was called the Jahangiri. This coin, minted in Kashmir, is an example … note the heavy weight of the coin. Later, a 25% overweight coin, the sawai (sawa means one and a quarter), was also tried. Neither of these experiments was popular with the traders and so the coinage returned to the normal rupee standard.