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1 Tanka - Ala al-din Firuz II mintless
| Issuer | Bengal Sultanate |
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| Year | 1531-1532 |
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| Weight | 10.6 g |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by a multi-line Arabic legend arranged within a square or rectangular frame, with additional marginal inscriptions filling the border area. The bold, deeply struck calligraphy in the Bengali-sultanate style presents the royal titles and formulaic Islamic declaration in a characteristic crude hand. The field shows the typical irregular flan of hammered silver coinage, with portions of the marginal legend occasionally running off the coin's edge. The inscription acknowledges the sultan's authority and includes the shahada or related pious formula common to Bengal Sultanate tanka coinage. |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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Ala al-Din Firuz Shah II ruled Bengal for a matter of months in 1532 before being deposed and killed, making his coinage among the scarcest of the Husain Shahi dynasty's final chapter. The absence of a mint name on this tanka is not an aberration — it reflects a documented practice among certain Bengal sultans of issuing coins without mint attribution, a phenomenon that continues to complicate die-linkage studies for this reign specifically.