Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Tanka - Jalal ud-Din Muhammad Shah
| Issuer | Bengal Sultanate |
|---|---|
| Year | 1415-1432 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 1 Tanka |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Hammered silver tanka of irregular round flan bearing a multi-line Arabic legend in bold Naskh script occupying the entire field. The inscription reads the royal titles and name of Sultan Jalal ud-Din Muhammad Shah, proclaiming him 'Sultan, Helper of Islam and the Muslims, may his reign be perpetual.' The legend is set within the coin's field without a formal border, consistent with Bengal Sultanate hammered coinage practice. The die-struck lettering shows characteristic vertical striations from the hammering process, with natural flan irregularities visible at the edges. Surface patination with areas of green cuprite is present. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Arabic |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Jalal ud-Din Muhammad Shah ruled Bengal through a period of genuine administrative consolidation, and his silver coinage reflects a mint operation that was, by the standards of the sultanate, remarkably consistent. His reign saw Bengal functioning as one of the wealthiest and most autonomous of the regional sultanates, largely insulated from the chaos that followed Timur's 1398 sack of Delhi and the subsequent Sayyid interregnum that left the Delhi Sultanate a hollow institution.
GG#B367 specimens tend to circulate heavily — Bengal's trade economy with Arakan, Jaunpur, and the Malabar coast kept silver moving.