About Extremely fine, Extremely rare.

In his autobiography, Jahangir mentions he got an idea that instead of inscribing the name of the month of issue on his coins - a feature introduced by his father, the emperor Akbar - he would show the sun sign for each month. Thus, a series of zodiacal types was struck in silver and gold, each sign corresponding to the month of issue. The obverse dies were reused from year to year, but new dated reverses were produced for each subsequent issue. The coins were struck from mints wherever the Emperor was in residence and are known for the mints of Agra, Ahmadabad, Ajmer, Fathpur, Kashmir and Lahore. Silver rupees of any mint apart from Ahmadabad are very rare. The coins were considered to be heretical by Jahangir's successor Shahjahan and recalled from circulation - however their immense beauty and novel conceptual designs made them collector's items even during their circulatory life. They are perhaps the most sought after Mughal coins and have remained so for nearly four centuries.