1 Tanka - Ala-Al-Din Bahman Shah

Ala-al-Din Bahman Shah founded the Bahmani Sultanate in 1347 after leading a successful revolt against the Tughluq governors of the Deccan — one of the few provincial rebellions of the Delhi Sultanate period that produced a fully independent dynasty rather than a brief interregnum. His gold coinage was struck to assert that independence as much as to facilitate trade, and the exceptional fineness of the metal was a deliberate political signal to both the Tughluqs to the north and the Hindu kingdoms to the south. The Bahmani mint tradition of near-pure gold held through successive sultans for over a century.