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Chītor Mint

Coins were issued from the Chītor mint by:

 

Moghuls

Akbar

 

 

Moghul Contemporaries

Mewār State

 

History & Coinage

See Nelson Wright

Chītor was captured by Akbar from the Rana of Mewār in 1567 after a siege of four months. Wright refers to the copper coins of Akbar and also ‘a single silver coin of Akbar from this mint’ [1].

 


[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