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1/2 Tanka - Giyas ud din Muhammad II
| Issuer | Sultanate of Gujarat |
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| Year | 1443-1451 |
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| Value | 1/2 Tanka |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
| Obverse lettering | غياث الدنيا والدين |
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Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad Shah II ruled Gujarat for less than a decade before dying in 1451, leaving a sultanate that would reach its political peak only under his successors. The Gujarat Sultanate struck copper tankas in fractional denominations primarily to facilitate low-value market transactions at a time when the region's textile and spice trades were generating enormous wealth at the wholesale level — the copper coinage existed precisely because the silver did not reach the hands doing the smallest transactions.