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1 Kaserah - Hasan Shah 1472 - 1484
| Issuer | Kashmir Sultanate |
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| Year | 1470 |
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| Weight | 5.4 g |
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| Reverse description | Central field bearing a two-line Arabic legend reading 'Zarb Kashmir' (struck in Kashmir) above the mint formula, with the regnal date expressed in Hijri numerals (AH 874) in the lower register. The legend is rendered in bold, somewhat crude Naskh-style characters consistent with locally produced hammered copper coinage. The flan is irregular with uneven edges and shows areas of green cuprous patina. The date is a frozen issue, retained from the preceding reign and continued unchanged throughout the coinage of Hasan Shah. |
| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Hasan Shah's reign over the Kashmir Sultanate was among the more stable interludes in a dynasty frequently destabilized by court factionalism and Timurid pressure from the northwest. The kaserah was the basic copper unit circulating through the valley's markets during this period, and Hasan Shah's issues are catalogued across several die varieties reflecting decentralized or sequential minting rather than a single controlled production run.
The GG#K33A attribution places this among the scarcer documented varieties of the type.