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1/8 Dam - Shah Jahan Narnol
| Issuer | Mughal Empire |
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| Year | 1037-1068 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Narnol, a mint town in present-day Haryana, was administratively significant during Shah Jahan's reign as a regional center under the Mughal provincial system. The fractional copper dam — and its subdivisions — filled the gap between the empire's silver rupee economy and everyday low-value transactions, since silver was entirely impractical for petty commerce. The 1/8 dam is the smallest denomination in that copper hierarchy, and Narnol issues are among the scarcer provincial fractions simply because smaller mints struck copper in lower volumes than the great imperial centers like Agra or Lahore.