1/2 Dam

The date range here is telling. By 1700 the Mughal imperial apparatus was already fracturing under Aurangzeb's exhausting Deccan campaigns, and within decades the empire existed largely in name only — successor states, the Marathas, and eventually the East India Company all issued copper fractions that mimicked Mughal types to maintain market confidence in regions where the dynasty's name still carried transactional weight. This piece likely originates from one of those successor mints rather than an imperial one.