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1/2 Tanka - Qutb al Din Ahmad Shah II
| Issuer | Gujarat Sultanate |
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| Year | 1450-1458 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Hammered copper flan bearing Arabic script legends in the field, with the regnal year AH 861 (partially visible as '٦١') recorded prominently. The inscriptions are executed in a bold, somewhat crude Naskh style typical of provincial Gujarat Sultanate coinage of the mid-fifteenth century. The surface displays considerable patination and wear consistent with circulation use, with the legend distributed across the available field without a formal border. |
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| Reverse description | Hammered copper reverse bearing multi-line Arabic inscriptions filling the field, typical of Gujarat Sultanate copper coinage of the period. The legends, rendered in a provincial Naskh hand, likely contain the ruler's titles and the mint name or additional regnal formulae, arranged in horizontal registers across the flan. The strike is irregular, with portions of the legend weakly impressed due to the uneven planchet surface. Green and red patination covers much of the surface, partially obscuring finer details of the inscription. |
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| Mintage | 854 (1450) - - 855 (1451) - - 856 (1452) - - 857 (1453) - - 858 (1454) - - 859 (1455) - - 860 (1456) - - 861 (1457) - - 862 (1458) - - |
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