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1 Tanka - Ghiyath al Din Bahadur Khitta Lakhnauti mint
| Issuer | Bengal Sultanate |
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| Year | 1320-1324 |
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| Currency | Tanka (1342-1576) |
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| Obverse description | Hammered silver tanka with a broad, irregular flan bearing dense multi-line Arabic calligraphic inscription in bold naskh script filling the entire field. The legend, reading in several horizontal registers, gives the full royal titulature of the sultan: al-Sultan al-Azam Ghiyath al-Dunya wa'l-Din Abu'l-Muzaffar Bahadur Shah al-Sultan ibn al-Sultan. No figurative motif is present; the entire design is composed exclusively of Arabic epigraphy, characteristic of Islamic coinage of the Bengal Sultanate. |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
| Reverse lettering | الامام المستعصم امير المؤمنين (within square); (AH date and mint name, Khitta Lakhnauti, in margin) |
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