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1 Dam - Akbar
| Issuer | Mughal Empire |
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| Year | 1592-1605 |
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| Thickness | 7.92 mm |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Rough |
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The dam was the workhorse denomination of Akbar's reformed currency system, introduced following his comprehensive monetary overhaul of 1572–1573, which pegged copper, silver, and gold into fixed ratios for the first time across Mughal-administered territories. By the final decade of his reign — the window this piece falls within — the mints at Fatehpur Sikri, Agra, Lahore, and several others were all striking dams concurrently, making mint attribution without a legible mint mark a persistent problem for catalogers.