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1 Tanka - Jalal Al-Din Muhammad Shah
| Issuer | Bengal Sultanate |
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| Year | 1415 |
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| Currency | Tanka (1342-1576) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Jalal al-Din Muhammad Shah ruled Bengal twice — his first reign ended when his brother Shamsuddin Ahmad Shah seized power, and he only recovered the throne after Ahmad Shah was murdered by his own nobles in 1432. This tanka, struck during his first reign, was issued from a sultanate that had by the early fifteenth century become one of the wealthiest independent polities in South Asia, its silver supplied in part through active trade with Arakan and the overland routes into interior Bengal.
The GG B309 type is well-documented in the Goron-Goenka corpus. датой mint attribution for this issue remains Pandua, the sultanate's administrative capital before the court shifted definitively to Gaur.