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1 Dugani - Ghiyas-ud-din Balban
| Issuer | Delhi Sultanate |
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| Year | 1266-1287 |
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| Currency | Tanka (1206-1526) |
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| Obverse lettering | السلطان الأعظم غياث الدنيا والدين |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Balban's coinage represents a deliberate assertion of authority following decades of weakened sultanate control under the Slave Dynasty's later rulers. Having served as a powerful regent before seizing the throne outright in 1266, he used administrative and ceremonial reforms — including strict court protocol borrowed from Persian imperial tradition — to project an image of absolute sovereignty. His billon issues, struck in the lowest denomination, were the coins most ordinary people actually handled.
The dugani circulated at a period when Delhi's monetary system was still finding its footing between older regional traditions and the centralizing ambitions of the sultanate.