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1 Rupee - Akbar Berar Mint
| Issuer | Mughal Empire |
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| Year | 1555-1605 |
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| Value | 1 Rupee |
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| Reverse description | Arabic calligraphic legend in two registers recording the regnal month (Mihr) and the mint name 'Zarb Berar' (struck at Berar), accompanied by the date of issue. A distinctive pigeon mint mark, complete and clearly rendered, appears in the field as the identifying symbol of the Berar mint. The reverse displays the characteristic floral and foliate embellishments seen on Akbar's later-series rupees, with bold, deeply incused letterforms on the slightly irregular hammered flan. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Berar, in the Deccan, was not a Mughal possession at the start of Akbar's reign — it had to be taken. The mint there operated only after Akbar's forces consolidated control over the region in the later decades of his rule, making Berar-mint rupees considerably scarcer than those from the northern imperial centers at Agra or Lahore. Akbar's monetary reforms of the 1570s standardized the rupee's weight across all mints, but regional dies and calligraphic styles still varied enough that mint attribution requires close die study rather than weight alone.