1 Falus - Nasir Al-Din Mahmud Shah I

Nasir al-Din Mahmud Shah I ruled Gujarat during a period of remarkable commercial expansion, when Gujarati merchants dominated Indian Ocean trade routes from East Africa to Southeast Asia. The sultanate's copper coinage was the workhorse of that internal economy — silver and gold moved the long-distance trade, but the falus handled the bazaar. His reign of over five decades was the longest of any Gujarat sultan, which partly explains why these pieces turn up with some regularity despite the attrition copper suffers in tropical climates.