An attractive specimen with excellent eye appeal.
Extremely fine, Exceptionally rare.

On the 23rd day of the Ilahi month Farwardin, the first month of the solar and regnal year 13, the Emperor's camp was close to Ahmadabad, the capital of the Province of Gujarat. This is when the idea of putting Zodiacal signs on coins entered Jahangir's mind. The earliest issues from Agra, however, begin with the next regnal year when Jahangir returned to Agra. This is the coin of the first month, Farwardin, of RY 14, represented by Aries or ram.
This silver rupee is a die-identical piece with the gold mohur Zeno #304531.

A mention in the 'Tuzuq-i Jahangiri', the memoirs of emperor Jahangir for the 14th regnal year records that he had an idea that the Zodiacal sun sign representing every solar Ilahi month should be depicted on his coins, rather than just an inscribed mention of it. This innovation prompted the famous Zodiacal series of Jahangir's coinage, often considered the Zenith of Mughal Numismatics in terms of its artistic beauty and historicity, not to mention its lure to the connoisseur collectors of Mughal coins.

Zodiacal coins were struck as rupees and mohurs. While Agra predominates as a mint for known gold mohurs, rupees are most commonly known for Ahmadabad. Rupees of Agra, in comparison, are much rare - sometimes even more so than the mohurs.