Mohur

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For the city in Iran also spelled Mohur, see Mohr, Fars. For the village in India, see Mohur (village).
One and Two Mohur coins
of British India
1862 One Mohur
1835 Two Mohurs (Double Mohur)[nb 1]

The Mohur is a

Persia (chiefly Afghanistan). It was usually equivalent in value to fifteen silver rupees. It was last minted in British India in 1918, but some princely states continued to issue the coins until their accession
to India after 1947. Similar coins were also issued by the British authorities in denominations of 2⁄3 mohur (10 rupees), 1⁄3 mohur (5 rupees) and the double mohur (30 rupees), and some of the princely states issued half-mohur coins (equal to 7 rupees and 8 anna).

The mohur coin was first introduced by

Mughal emperors
standardized this coinage of tri-metallism across the sub-continent in order to consolidate the monetary system.

Etymology

Khandesh Sultanate on 17 January 1601 CE. Legend: "Allah is great, Khordad Ilahi 45, struck at Asir".[4][5]

The word mohur or

mohor (from the Persian word muhr, which means "seal" or "signet ring"[6]) is cognate with the Sanskrit word mudrā, which in turn comes from mudraṇam, which also means "seal".[7]

Collector value

Gold mohurs issued by the Mughal Empire, the British East India Company or the British Crown are valuable collector items and sell in auctions for high prices. The double mohur (minted between 1835 and 1918) with a value of 30 rupees is the highest denomination circulating coin issued till date. An 1835 double mohur was sold at a Bangalore auction for ₹11.5 lakhs making it the highest ever coin bid in India.[8]

See also

References

Footnotes

  1. ^ The 1835 double mohur, also called ashrafi, on average contains 23.32 grams of gold (0.9170 fine) and weighs 0.6875 of an ounce.[1] Only 1,170 were minted.[2]

Notes

  1. ISBN 978-0-89689-940-7
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  2. ISBN 978-1-4402-0424-1
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  3. ^ Mughal Coinage Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine at RBI Monetary Museum. Retrieved on May 4, 2008.
  4. ^ Smith 1917, p. 274.
  5. ^ Gibbs, J. (1865). Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Calcutta. pp. 4–5.
  6. ^ "mohur". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
  7. ^ "Sanskritdictionary.com: Definition of mudraṇam". sanskritdictionary.com.
  8. ^ Srivatsa, Sharath S. (February 20, 2012). "Collector mints a fortune from coin auction" – via www.thehindu.com.
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