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1/2 Tanka - Ghiyath al-Din Mahmud Fathabad
| Issuer | Sultanate of Bengal (Indian Sultanates) |
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| Year | 1527 |
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| Weight | 5.2 g |
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| Reverse description | Central circular cartouche containing a multi-line Persian legend in raised relief, mirroring the obverse layout. The surrounding marginal legend records the mint name Fathabad and the regnal or Hijri date, arranged in bold calligraphic script around the circumference. The die workmanship displays the characteristic flat-field hammered style of the Bengal Sultanate, with slightly uneven strike pressure visible across the flan. The irregular flan edge is typical of hand-manufactured half-tanka fabric of this period. |
| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Ghiyath al-Din Mahmud's reign over Bengal lasted barely four years before the Suri incursion effectively ended independent Sultanate authority in the region. This issue from Fathabad — a mint city on the Ganges whose precise modern identification remains debated among historians — falls squarely within that terminal phase, when the Bengal Sultanate was hemorrhaging territory and political coherence under pressure from both the expanding Mughal sphere and internal succession disputes following the death of Nusrat Shah in 1532.
The half tanka denomination in silver is the less frequently encountered fraction from this reign. GG#B902 is sparsely documented in auction records.