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1 Falus - Ghiyath Shah
| Issuer | Malwa, Sultanate of |
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| Year | 1472-1499 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Ghiyath Shah ruled Malwa for nearly five decades — an exceptional tenure by Sultanate-era standards — and spent much of his reign deliberately disengaged from military campaigns, delegating governance to his son Nasir while he presided over a court renowned across the subcontinent for its patronage of music, poetry, and the arts. The copper falus circulated in a sultanate that was, by the late fifteenth century, more culturally than militarily ambitious.
The 80 rati weight standard reflects the indigenous Indian reckoning system rather than any Persianate or Central Asian metrology, rooting this issue firmly in local commercial practice.