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1 Tanka - Muhammad bin Tughluq Daulatabad
| Issuer | Delhi Sultanate |
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| Year | 1325-1351 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is fully inscribed in Arabic script arranged in multiple lines across the field, bearing the legend proclaiming the coin's denomination and the sultan's title: 'Muhr shud tankah panchah gani dar rozgar bandah amidvar Muhammad Tughluq' (Sealed as a tanka of fifty ganis, in the reign of the slave hopeful of divine mercy, Muhammad Tughluq). The bold hammered lettering in Naskh script fills the entire flan with no border or decorative elements, consistent with the utilitarian bronze coinage of the Tughluq dynasty. |
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Muhammad bin Tughluq's decision to shift the imperial capital from Delhi to Daulatabad in the Deccan around 1327 was one of the most catastrophically mismanaged administrative experiments in the Sultanate's history. He forced the entire population of Delhi to make the 1,500-kilometer march south — chronicler Ibn Battuta recorded mass deaths along the route — and then reversed the order within a few years, abandoning Daulatabad almost entirely. Coins struck there during this window are the physical residue of that failed relocation, produced at a mint that existed largely because a sultan had willed a new capital into being by imperial decree.