Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1692. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Mughal Empire. Jalal al-Din Akbar. 1556-1605. AV Square Mohur (12.04 g, 12h). Urdu Zafar-qarin (Camp associated with victories) mint. Dated "alif"-AH 1000 (1591 AD). Kalima within central diamond; four successors of the Prophet in angles / "May Allah perpetuate his kingdom 1000/Muhammad Akbar badshah/Jalal al-Din ghazi; mint below. Wright 101; Hull 1236; BMC 73; KM 112.4. Good VF. ($1000)

The Muslim Mughals were as susceptible to millenarianism as the Christians, and the arrival of Anno Hegira 1000 brought with it the same portents of a new age that Christians had anticipated some 600 years earlier. Akbar's coinage of that year is dated year "1" to indicate the beginning of that new era.