Hodivala (Historical Studies in Mughal Numismatics (org. publ. 1923, reprint 1976), describes the extraordinary Rupee in the Punjab Museum Lahore (Cat. No. 1331) with the Kalima and the date on one side and the abnormal legend Sikkah Shah Jahan Rayej bad and points out that this is a pre-accession issue. He quotes from contemporary European record that it was an unauthorized product of the Surat mint and disowned by Shah Jahan himself who ordered that all coins should continue to bear the name of his father (Jahangir) up to the day of his formal coronation. The East India Company’s factors at Ahmadabad write on the 31st of January 1628, in the following terms: “What money is coined in this town bears the Stamp of Shawselim [Shah Salim, i.e. Jahangir] by the Prince’s owne order at this being here, till he bee crowned in Dillie so that the quoyning of money in Suratt under his name is affirmed to be done by the Governour there without his order; neither will the passé here without some losse.” (English Factories in India, 1624-1629. ed. W. Foster, 232.) “This reference to the premature coining of money at Surat is interesting,” says the editor of the Correspondence who does not appear to have known that a specimen of these unauthorized mintages has survived the ‘tooth of time’. When Hodival wrotes his notes he knew only of a single surviving specimen, the one in the Punjab Museum Lahore. R.B. Whitehead (Some notable coins of the Mughal emperors of India, (Numismatic Chronicle, 1926) writes that he knew of half a dozen specimens. The full legend is 'Sikka-i-Shahjahan Ra'ij Baad' سکه شاه جهان رائج باد - "Coin of Shahjahan may ever remain current". Single-line verse.