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1 Tanka - Ghiyas ud din Balban
| Issuer | Delhi Sultanate |
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| Year | 1275 |
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| Value | 1 Tanka |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Central field bearing a multi-line Arabic legend in bold Naskh script within a plain inner circle, recording the name and regnal titles of Sultan Ghiyas ud-Din Balban, ruler of the Delhi Sultanate, along with the formula affirming his sovereignty. A circular marginal legend in Arabic script encircles the central panel within the outer border, continuing the honorific titulature. The die-engraving is characteristic of mid-thirteenth-century Delhi Sultanate gold coinage, with densely packed calligraphic forms filling the available field. |
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Ghiyas ud-Din Balban ruled the Delhi Sultanate from 1266 to 1287, and his reign marked a deliberate break from the administrative chaos left by his predecessors. He suppressed the powerful Turkish nobility — the Forty, as they were known — and centralized authority with a severity that contemporaries found remarkable. His gold coinage reflects this consolidation: fewer experiments, tighter control over the mints at Delhi and Lakhnauti.
Fr#423 is among the scarcer Balban gold attributions. The 1270s output coincides with his campaigns against the Mewati chiefs and renewed pressure on Bengal.