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1 Rupee - Akbar Karrah - Kada mint
| Issuer | Mughal Empire (India) |
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| Year | 1562-1563 |
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| Value | 1 Rupee |
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| Reverse script | Arabic/Persian |
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| Mintage | 969 (1562) 970 (1563) |
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Akbar's early coinage is among the most administratively revealing in Mughal numismatics. The Kada mint — also rendered Karrah — operated in the Allahabad region during a period when Akbar was still consolidating authority over the middle Gangetic plain, and coins struck there reflect a fiscal infrastructure being assembled on the move. Karrah itself would later become administratively significant during the revenue experiments of the 1570s, but in 1562–63 it functioned primarily as a regional minting point serving military and commercial demand during active campaigning.