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1/2 Tanka - Ala al-din Mahmud Shah I
| Issuer | Malwa Sultanate |
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| Year | 839-873 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Mintage | ND (839-873) |
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The Malwa Sultanate's billon coinage from this period reflects the fractured monetary environment of central India in the mid-fifteenth century, when regional sultanates struck their own issues largely independent of Delhi's declining authority. Mahmud Shah I ruled Malwa from 1436 to 1469 — one of the longer and more stable reigns of the dynasty — during which the sultanate held its own against both the Bahmani Sultanate to the south and the Sharqi rulers of Jaunpur.
The 40 rati weight standard ties this piece to a pre-Mughal indigenous system that persisted stubbornly in central Indian minting practice long after it had been displaced elsewhere.