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1/2 Tanka - Ghiyath Shah 1469 - 1500
| Issuer | Malwa Sultanate |
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| Year | 1473-1501 |
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| Value | 1/2 Tanka |
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| Obverse description | Square hammered silver flan bearing a multi-line Arabic inscription in bold, deeply struck Naskh script divided by a horizontal line into two registers. The upper register carries the opening portion of the royal legend identifying the sultan, while the lower register continues the titulature. In this variety, the epithet 'abu'l fath' appears above 'ghiyath' within the field. The inscription reads in part: 'al-wathiq bi'l multaji abu'l fath ghiyath shah bin mahmud shah al-khalji al-sultan khallad mulkahu'. The lettering fills the field to the margins with characteristic Khalji Malwa die-cutting style. |
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| Mintage | 878 (1473) - - 885 (1480) - - ND (1480-1500) - AH 885-890, 892-906 - 886 (1481) - - 887 (1482) - - 888 (1483) - - 889 (1484) - - 890 (1485) - - 892 (1487) - - 893 (1488) - - 894 (1489) - - 895 (1490) - - 896 (1491) - - 897 (1492) - - 898 (1493) - - 899 (1494) - - 900 (1495) - - 901 (1496) - - 902 (1497) - - 903 (1498) - - 904 (1499) - - 905 (1500) - - 906 (1501) - - |
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Ghiyath Shah's reign over Malwa was among the longer and more stable of the sultanate's history, but his coinage is complicated by a near-total absence of regnal year recording — most attributions to specific decades within his 31-year rule rest on stylistic and die-study grounds rather than dated inscriptions. The GG#M76 half tanka falls into that frustrating middle period where attribution is confident but chronological precision is not.
Malwa silver of this era is frequently encountered with pronounced die wear and off-center strikes, a product of the Mandu mint's inconsistent blank preparation rather than circulation damage.