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1 Rupee - Ghiyath al-Din Bahadur
| Issuer | Bengal, Sultanate of |
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| Year | 1555-1561 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Densely packed Arabic and Nagari legends fill the entire field of this hammered silver rupee, with no central figural motif, consistent with the aniconic tradition of the Bengal Sultanate. The Arabic inscription in multiple registers reads the royal title and name of Sultan Ghiyath al-Din Bahadur Shah ibn Muhammad Shah Ghazi, accompanied by the pious formula invoking God's perpetuation of his reign and sultanate. Below the Arabic legend, a Nagari inscription reads 'Shri Bahadur Shah,' asserting the ruler's authority in the local script. The legends are rendered in a bold, angular hand typical of mid-sixteenth-century Bengal Sultanate coinage. The flan is slightly irregular in shape, as is characteristic of hammered issues of this period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ghiyath al-Din Bahadur ruled Bengal for a narrow window in the mid-sixteenth century, a period when the Sultanate was caught between the collapsing Sur Afghan empire and the expanding reach of the Mughals under Akbar. His reign effectively ended when Mughal forces consolidated Bengal, making issues struck in his name among the final expressions of independent Afghan authority in the region.