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1 Tanka - Firuz Shah Tughluq
| Issuer | Delhi Sultanate |
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| Year | 1358-1380 |
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| Value | 1 Tanka |
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| Obverse description | Central field bearing a multi-line Arabic religious legend in bold Naskh script, invoking the Caliph as Commander of the Faithful (Amir al-Muminin) with the phrase acknowledging caliphal authority, accompanied by the AH date 767. The inscription fills the entire flan in the characteristic dense, intertwining style of Tughluq-era epigraphy, with no figurative elements. The die-struck lettering is set within an irregular, slightly raised border. |
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| Reverse description | Central field occupied entirely by a multi-line Arabic legend in Naskh script identifying the ruler as Sultan Firuz Shah, with the mint formula reading 'struck at the Sublime Porte of Delhi' (zarbat ba-hazrat Dehli). The inscription is densely composed across the flan in typical Tughluq hammered-coin style, with bold, slightly irregular lettering reflecting hand-cut dies. No subsidiary devices or borders are present beyond the natural edge of the struck flan. |
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Firuz Shah Tughluq's coinage policy was deliberately conservative — he maintained the billon tanka at a time when his predecessor Muhammad bin Tughluq had destabilized the currency through a disastrous token coinage experiment in the 1320s and 30s, flooding the market with brass and copper pieces that the public immediately began counterfeiting. Firuz's long reign allowed the Delhi mint system to restabilize, and his issues circulated across a sultanate that, while contracting at the edges, remained administratively coherent through the 1370s.