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1 Falus - Nasir Al-Din Mahmud Shah III
| Issuer | Sultanate of Gujarat |
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| Year | 1551-1555 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a multi-line Arabic inscription in Naskh script, arranged in two registers separated by a horizontal line, filling the entire field of the irregularly shaped flan. The upper register contains the regnal title of Sultan Nasir al-Din Mahmud Shah III, while the lower portion bears additional elements of the royal legend. The bold, deeply struck characters are typical of Gujarat Sultanate copper coinage of the mid-sixteenth century, with the flan exhibiting the characteristic irregular planchet shape of hammered production. |
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| Mintage | 958 (1551) - - 959 (1552) - - 960 (1553) - - 961 (1554) - - 962 (1555) - - |
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Nasir al-Din Mahmud Shah III ruled Gujarat under circumstances that made independent coinage something of a fiction. By the time of his reign, the Sultanate was caught between Mughal pressure from the north and internal factional collapse — Mahmud III was effectively a puppet of the Miyan family, the powerful noble clan that had dominated the court since the reign of Bahadur Shah. He was deposed, restored, and manipulated repeatedly before the Mughals under Akbar finally absorbed Gujarat in 1572.
Copper falus of this reign are scarce relative to the silver coinage, a pattern consistent with late-period provincial sultanates where base metal production became erratic as central authority deteriorated.