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1 Tanka - Husain Shah
| Issuer | Sultanate of Bengal |
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| Year | 1505-1508 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Struck in bold relief on an irregular silver flan, the obverse presents a three-line Arabic kalima inscription arranged within a plain square or rectangular central field: 'La ilaha illa Allah / Muhammad rasul Allah / al-Sultan.' The bold Naskh script characters are deeply struck and occupy the full width of the field. A plain linear border surrounds the central inscription area, with the flan edges left undecorated, consistent with the hammered coinage tradition of the Bengal Sultanate. |
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| Obverse lettering | لا اله الا الله محمد رسول الله السلطان |
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Alauddin Husain Shah ruled Bengal from 1494 to 1519 and is widely regarded as the greatest of the Bengal Sultans — a ruler whose reign coincided with the early Portuguese presence in the Bay of Bengal and whose administration extended Bengal's territory further than any predecessor. The years bracketed here, 1505–1508, fall within the middle stretch of that reign, a period of active military campaigning into Kamata and Orissa.
DR#486 places this among the documented tanka sequence for Husain Shah, though die variety attribution within his coinage remains an area where the reference literature is still catching up to available specimens.