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Bairāta Mint

Coins were issued from the Bairāta mint by:

Moghuls	Akbar
	Jahāngīr
	Shāh Jahān I
	Aurangzeb

History

See Nelson Wright

Bairāta, a town in Rajputana in the vicinity of Alwar, had from early times been famous for its copper mines. It is mentioned in the ain-i-Akbari as also possessing an unremunerative silver mine [1].

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[1] Wright H. Nelson (1908), Catalogue of the Coins in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, Vol. III. Reprinted in 1975 as Coins of the Mughal Emperors in India by K.V. Sachdeva, New Dehli