Inv. LNS 12376 N
Art market, 2005
Published: Habsburg Feldman, Geneva, 8 November 1987, lot 2
Such coins were presented to officials and notables as an expression of appreciation and demonstration of the grandeur and generosity of the ruler.
We know this from literature, but extant examples are practically unknown. This
one is inscribed in Arabic and Persian in nasta‘liq script: on the obverse, “There is no god
but God the One, [and] Muhammad is His
prophet, struck in 1048, at the abode of the Sultanate, Lahore”; and on the reverse, “Shihab
al-din Muhammad, Second Lord of the Auspicious Planetary Conjunction, Shah Jahan Padshah Ghazi, twelfth regnal year”.
