Sale: CNG 73, Lot: 1183. Estimate $600.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 13 September 2006.  Sold For $625. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Mughal Empire. Muhammad Ibrahim. 1720. AR Rupee (11.40 g, 1h). Shahjahanabad mint. Dated AH 113x, RY ahd “one”. Legends with poetical couplet; AH date / Continuation of legends with regnal year and mint. Wright -; Hull 2031; KM 426.1. Good VF.

Muhammad Ibrahim was the son of Rafi-ud-Dawla, both of whom served briefly as Mughal emperor in the course of the plottings of the Sayyid brothers, Abdullah Khan and Hussain Khan, two adventurers who played kingmakers after the death of Shah Alam I in 1712. For ten years they controlled the empire behind a succession of puppet rulers, until they fell victim to the plots of Muhammad Shah in 1722.