1 Dam - Shah Alam Bahadur Elichpur mint

Shah Alam Bahadur's reign (1707–1712) was the first serious crack in Mughal imperial coherence after Aurangzeb's death. He spent nearly the entire period fighting his brothers for the throne, then suppressing Rajput and Sikh rebellions, leaving the administration stretched thin across a dissolving periphery. Elichpur, a provincial mint in the Berar region of the Deccan, continued striking copper dam coinage through this chaos — output that was essentially local in function, circulating within a regional economy that the center could barely tax.