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1/2 Dinar - Turanshah II Jarun
| Issuer | Emirate of Qalhati |
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| Year | 1427-1456 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Hammered gold flan bearing multiple horizontal lines of Arabic script in a bold, somewhat crude calligraphic style characteristic of Gulf regional coinage of the 15th century. The legends are struck across the irregular flan in several registers, with the text filling the field. The strike is slightly off-center, resulting in partially visible inscriptions near the periphery. The surface shows the typical rough texture of hammered gold coinage of this period and region. |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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Turanshah II ruled Qalhat during a period when the port city functioned as the dominant entrepôt for Gulf and Indian Ocean trade, channeling Persian, Indian, and East African commerce through Omani waters. The Emirate's gold fractional issues are exceptionally rare in any condition — production volumes were almost certainly limited, and the coins moved through high-value mercantile transactions rather than everyday exchange, meaning survivorship correlates poorly with original mintage.
Album 1942 is sparsely documented, and specimens attributable to Turanshah II specifically remain poorly represented in major collections.