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1/2 Dam 1 Nisfi - Akbar
| Issuer | Mughal Empire |
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| Year | 1556-1605 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by bold Arabic calligraphic inscription in the name of Emperor Akbar, rendered in a fluid, interlocking Naskh or Shikasta style typical of Mughal hammered copper coinage. The legend fills the flan almost entirely, with strokes extending toward the irregular periphery. The relief is high and the legends are deeply struck, though the irregular flan results in partial legends on some specimens. The overall presentation is characteristic of the undated (ND) Mughal dam series struck under Jalal ud-Din Muhammad Akbar. |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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Akbar's copper coinage was part of a sweeping monetary reform that restructured the Mughal system around the silver rupee, with copper dams and their fractions serving the everyday transactions that silver could not practically reach. The half dam — the nisfi — was the smallest denomination most common laborers and market vendors would have handled. Akbar's mints were numerous and often geographically shifting, and attribution of individual copper pieces to specific facilities remains contested among specialists.