¼ Tankah - Sultan Dilawar Governor of Sandwip Island

Sandwip Island, positioned at the mouth of the Meghna River in the Bay of Bengal, changed hands repeatedly through the early seventeenth century — Portuguese pirates, the Mughals, the Arakanese, and local Bengali chieftains all held it at various points. Sultan Dilawar's governorship fell within Arakan's period of greatest maritime reach, when the kingdom controlled a significant stretch of the Bengal coast and ran a slave trade that devastated villages as far inland as Dhaka.

Provincial fractional silver struck under named governors is rare in this series. Most surviving Arakanese coinage of the period was issued centrally from Mrauk-U.