Akbar dam, mint Mertha or Mirath 987 A.H

[abhinumis]

Hi all,
Today acquired this nice looking and clean dam of Akbar.. Wt-20.3 gms.. Kindly attribute.. Date seems to be 987 or 978??

[akona20]

This coin is described in Valentine and dated 987. However perhaps there is a more updated reading.

The mint in Valentine is described as Meerut=Mirath or Mirtha

[saro]

The date is 987 as we can clearly read  :"nuhsad wa hashtad wa..." in letters =98x

[abhinumis]

Mirtha or meerut is a scarce mint of Akbar AFAIK going by only one example in Zeno and 2 other example here on WOC by Amitji(asm). Is my inference correct??

[asm]

Yes. It appears these are difficult to get but, not so scarce now........I believe Overlord to has one or may be two .........

Amit

[Overlord]

I believe Overlord to has one or may be two .........
Amit

Posted here.

[abhinumis]

That makes hardly 10 coins pics of this mint online if u start searching .. I would still call it scarce.. What say??

[saro]

Dear Abhinumis, my feeling is that you may call Mirath a scarce mint for Akbar's coppers.

I have gathered the copper coins of Akbar from different data sources (Lahore museum / Calcutta / Lucknow and Zeno ) with a  total of 1267 coins; that gives for  few mints :

Ahmadabad (72 coins) : 5,68%
Ajmer (60 coins) :           4,74%
Alwar ( 11 coins):           0,87%
Bairata 54 coins) :         4,26%
Delhi ( 142 coins):        11,21%
Dogaon (86 coins):         6,79%
Mirath (1=zeno): 0,08%
Narnol (169 coins):       13,34%
Urdu Zafar Qarin (82 coins): 6,47%

Even if catalogues of mughal coins are recent editions, that may give a good idea of scarcity of coins...