1/2 Tanka - Firuz Shah Tughluq

Firuz Shah Tughluq's reign was administratively prolific but monetarily conservative — he largely maintained the billon fractional system inherited from Muhammad bin Tughluq, whose disastrous token currency experiment in the 1320s–30s had so thoroughly collapsed public confidence that orthodox metal-value coinage became a political necessity for any successor. The half tanka in billon occupies the lower end of a carefully tiered system designed to rebuild that trust.

DR#1261 places this among a well-documented series, though die alignment and legend execution vary considerably across the 37-year reign.