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1 Gani - Muhammad Shah III
| Issuer | Bahmani Sultanate |
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| Year | 1463-1482 |
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| Currency | Tanka (1347-1518) |
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| Obverse lettering | al-mu'tasim billah (abu l'muzaffar) shams al-dunya wa'l din |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Muhammad Shah III ruled the Bahmani Sultanate during its final period of real coherence before the kingdom fragmented into the five Deccan Sultanates. His reign saw near-constant warfare against Vijayanagara to the south, and it was his minister Mahmud Gawan — one of the most capable administrators in medieval Indian history — who effectively held the sultanate together until his execution on the sultan's orders in 1481, a political miscalculation from which the Bahmani state never recovered.
Gawan's death came just a year before this issue's production window closes.