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1 Falus - Nasir ud Din Ahmad Shah I
| Issuer | Sultanate of Gujarat |
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| Year | 1411-1443 |
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| Reference(s) | GG#G11 |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse lettering | أحمد شاه السلطان |
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Ahmad Shah I founded Ahmedabad in 1411 — the same year he broke from the Muzaffarid governor's seat at Patan and established it as his independent capital — making the earliest falus of his reign effectively the first coins struck under a city that would become one of the subcontinent's great trading centers. The Gujarat Sultanate under Ahmad Shah controlled critical textile and spice routes to the Arabian Sea ports, and copper coinage at this weight standard facilitated the dense local market economy that larger silver and gold denominations could not reach.
The GG#G11 reference places this within George's classification of the early Ahmad Shah copper series, a group complicated by long reign spans and minimal date specificity on the flans themselves.