Sikandar ibn Muhammad Suri ?, Silver Rupee, 11.34g, AH 965, Possibly Minted at Agra, likely to be one of the two or three specimens known of this ephemeral issue and the only one known to be struck to the Rupee standard, Obv: Arabic legend “Sultan Sikandar bin Muhammad Sultan Khald Allah Mulkahu wa Saltanahu” in circle and “al-Sultan bin al-Sultan al-'Adil, followed by date and mint-name Saltanat Agra (?) and “Sri Seekandara Sahi” in Devnagari in margin, Rev: The Shahada in circle and names and titles of four Caliphs in the margin (G&G# MU2). Extremely fine, exceedingly rare. The identity of the ‘Sikandar’ who struck this coin is uncertain, but it is likely that he was a son of Muhammad ‘Adil Suri and was installed as a puppet in the uncertain times following the second battle of Panipat between Akbar and the Suri partisan Hemu. It is plausible it was struck as Agra and if so, a Mughal governor named Iskandar Khan Uzbeg was at charge here in the year AH965 (1557-58AD). It is likely that his authority was challenged by raising a pretender by followers of Hemu. The weight of this coin is also interesting – when John Deyell first published the type, only a ‘tanka’-standard coin was known. However, this is evidently a rupee-standard coin. This firmly places the coin within the circulating regime of the Rupee and not in the Chittagong imitative series, as tentatively suggested by G&G.