Place · Mughal silver & copper mint · India
Burhānpūr mint
Also known as Burhanpur sikka
The Burhānpūr mint in Khandesh, Madhya Pradesh — one of Akbar's three imperial silver-rupee mints after the 1601 annexation of Khandesh (with Agra and Lahore), continuing under Jahāngīr, Shāh Jahān and Aurangzeb. Burhānpūr sat on the Deccan road between the Mughal heartland and the campaigns against Ahmadnagar, Bijāpur and Golconda; its silver rupee funded the fifty-year Mughal Deccan war. The mint also issued the Dāhī and the Shahrukhi copper issues. The mint building has not survived; coins carry the Dar-ul-Sultanate mint-mark.
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- Periods
- Islamic Age and Bhakti Traditions, Early Modern Age
- Function
- Trade & production
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 21.308, 76.229
Connections (1)
- Peer institutionAgra Fort
Agra, Lahore and Burhānpūr were the three principal Mughal silver-rupee mints under Akbar.
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Sources
Standard reference.
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