World’s Biggest Gold Coin Weighing 12Kg
- 28-Jun-2022
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Story Of India’s Missing Artefact
Hyderabad: Regarded as the property of the Nizams of Hyderabad and the world’s biggest coin ever minted, the missing ‘12kg gold coin’ is in the news again, renewed quest by the Central government after an almost four-decade of futile search, minted by Mughal Emperor Jahangir, the priceless artifact was reportedly last in the possession of the titular Nizam VIII of Hyderabad, Mukarram Jah, who allegedly tried to auction the coin at a Swiss bank.
But, India’s central agency CBI failed to locate the coin that was given to Jah through his grandfather and the last Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan who had inherited the 12kg gold coin.
In the year 1987 when the Indian officials in Europe informed the central government about the world-famous auctioneer Habsburg Feldman SA auctioning the 11,935.8 grams gold coin in Geneva at Hotel Moga on November 9 through Paris-based Indosuez Bank’s Geneva branch, the CBI came into the picture, said Farooqui.
Salma Ahmed Farooqui, an eminent historian who researched the history and inheritance of the world’s biggest gold coin, told that the coin is priceless and Hyderabad’s pride. She said that now, the Indian government has started renewed efforts to locate the coin after 35 years.
As per Farooqui, ‘Investigations started and much information was unearthed. CBI officials donned the role of historians, building up on the history of the coin. Many CBI officials, who were part of the investigations, are not in office anymore.’
