Inscriptions on both sides: Kalima / Akbar's name and titles, mint in the lower margin. Dated to 996 AH = 1587 AD. Ahmedabad mint. 18x18mm, 11.39 grams. KM 82.
Struck on a malformed flan (with a split on obverse, does not go all the way through, stable).
The Mughal Dynasty is a line of Muslim emperors who reigned in India from 1526 to 1858. Babur, the first mughal emperor, was a descendant of the Turkish conqueror Timur on his father's side and of the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan on his mother's side.