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1 Dam - Akbar Chitor mint
| Issuer | Mughal Empire |
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| Thickness | 8 mm |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
| Obverse lettering | جلال الدين اكبر |
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Akbar's copper dam was the workhorse of his reorganized monetary system, the product of a deliberate imperial policy that separated copper, silver, and gold into distinct denominational circuits rather than allowing ad hoc exchange. The Chitor mint opened following Akbar's siege and conquest of Chittor in 1568 — a campaign of particular brutality even by contemporary standards, culminating in the massacre of an estimated 30,000 inhabitants. That the mint was established there shortly after reflects standard Mughal practice of converting conquered cities into productive imperial infrastructure almost immediately.
KM#79.4 distinguishes the Chitor fabric from other dam-issuing mints by die characteristics rather than marked differences in module.