Ala ud-Din Humayun Shah ruled the Bahmani Sultanate for just four years before his death in 1461, a reign remembered less for administration than for a reputation for extreme cruelty — medieval chroniclers, including Firishta, describe punishments so brutal that his own nobles eventually abandoned him. Copper fractional issues from his reign survive in small numbers, almost certainly because the political instability of his court disrupted routine minting.
The 1⅔ gani denomination itself reflects the Bahmani copper system's peculiar fractional arithmetic, derived from the gani as a base unit rather than following the more familiar decimal or duodecimal structures used by contemporary Delhi-period mints.
Ala ud-Din Humayun Shah ruled the Bahmani Sultanate for just four years before his death in 1461, a reign remembered less for administration than for a reputation for extreme cruelty — medieval chroniclers, including Firishta, describe punishments so brutal that his own nobles eventually abandoned him. Copper fractional issues from his reign survive in small numbers, almost certainly because the political instability of his court disrupted routine minting.
The 1⅔ gani denomination itself reflects the Bahmani copper system's peculiar fractional arithmetic, derived from the gani as a base unit rather than following the more familiar decimal or duodecimal structures used by contemporary Delhi-period mints.