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1/2 Falus - Ghiyath Shah Khalji
| Issuer | Malwa, Sultanate of |
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| Year | 1468-1498 |
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| Value | 1/2 Falus |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 872 (1468) - sic - 876 (1471) - - ND (1471-1496) - AH 876-78, 881-83, 887, 889-903. Also 872 (sic) - 877 (1472) - - 878 (1473) - - 881 (1476) - - 882 (1477) - - 883 (1478) - - 887 (1482) - - 889 (1484) - - 890 (1485) - - 891 (1486) - - 892 (1487) - - 893 (1488) - - 894 (1489) - - 895 (1490) - - 896 (1491) - - 897 (1492) - - 898 (1493) - - 899 (1494) - - 900 (1495) - - 901 (1496) - - 902 (1497) - - 903 (1498) - - |
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Ghiyath Shah ruled Malwa for thirty-one years without fighting a single war — an extraordinary record for a medieval Indian sultanate surrounded by ambitious neighbors. He delegated military and administrative affairs largely to his son Nasir and retreated into a court famous across the subcontinent for its poets, musicians, and the sheer scale of its female household. The copper fractional coinage of his reign circulated through a sultanate that was, by most contemporary accounts, genuinely prosperous and internally stable.
The half-falus denomination served the lowest tier of daily market transactions. GG#M88 is among the less commonly documented fractions from this reign.