1/2 Tanka - Muhammad bin Tughluq Daulatabad

The Daulatabad mint attribution here is historically loaded. Muhammad bin Tughluq's forced relocation of the entire Delhi court to Daulatabad — his renamed Devagiri — in the 1320s and 1330s was one of the most catastrophic administrative decisions of the Sultanate period, resulting in mass deaths along the route and eventual abandonment of the project. Coinage struck at Daulatabad during his reign documents that brief, disastrous window when the city was intended as the empire's new capital.

The regnal year 1524 of the Hijri-derived dating used by the Sultanate places this issue squarely within his reign, which ended with his death in 1351 near Thatta while pursuing a rebellion.