Cancer Sign. AH 1027/13. Obv: Star-Studded Crab emerging from the Sun.; Rev: Yaft Sad Zewar, Dar Ahmedabad, Shah Jahangir Badshah Akbar, 1027, surrounded by dotted outer circle. Corresponds to Ilahi month Tir. In his autobiography, the Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri, the Emperor Jahangir details his idea of issuing coinage with the zodiac signs stamped on the obverse, substituting the normal practice of inscribing the Ilahi months. Pictorial depictions were considered heresy by Islamic scholars and therefore these coins were recalled from circulation by Shah Jahan and melted down. Coins bearing the first five Zodiac signs are known from the Ahmedabad Mint in Silver, only from the year AH 1027. This was the time when Emperor Jahangir was in residence in Ahmedabad and therefore the mint dutifully struck the coinage. When he left, he entrusted care of Ahmedabad to his son Prince Khurram (Shah Jahan) who ordered the minting stopped. Zodiac coinage of Jahangir is amongst the great rarities and beauties of Mughal Numismatics, and one of the most sought-after objects in Indian Medieval coinage. Half rupees in this series are exceedingly rare and known from only a handful of examples.