1/2 Paisa - Shams Al-Din Adil Shah

Shams al-Din Adil Shah ruled the Madurai Sultanate for roughly a decade following the chaos that consumed the dynasty after its founder Ma'bar broke from the Delhi Sultanate in 1335. The Madurai sultans were chronically isolated — no maritime trade lifeline, surrounded by hostile Hindu kingdoms, and dependent on a copper coinage whose fractional denominations like this half paisa were the primary medium for local market exchange in the Tamil interior.

GG#MD32 is among the scarcer fractional types of the series. The sultanate itself collapsed with Kampana's Vijayanagara campaigns of the 1370s, which ended Muslim rule in the far south permanently.