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1 Dam - Taimur Shah Kashmir mint
| Issuer | Afghanistan |
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| Year | 1785-1790 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays Arabic legends in nasta'liq script arranged in multiple lines across the field, identifying the mint name Kashmir (کشمیر) and additional regal or pious formulae. The strike is characteristically uneven, with portions of the legend weakly impressed or falling off the flan due to the irregular planchet. The overall style is consistent with Durrani-period hammered copper coinage struck at the Kashmir mint. |
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| Edge | Plain (irregular), with incuse Arabic regnal year |
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Taimur Shah relocated the Afghan capital from Kandahar to Kabul in 1776, and his Kashmir mint operation reflects the administrative complexity of managing a realm that stretched from Khorasan to the Punjab frontier. Kashmir functioned as a revenue-generating province rather than a political center, and its mint output — including this copper dam — served local transactional needs that silver and gold issues simply could not efficiently fill at low denomination.
The dam as a unit had Mughal roots, and Afghan retention of the denomination in Kashmir was partly a practical concession to a population still accustomed to Mughal monetary conventions.