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1 Tanka - Nasir al-din Mahmud Shah I
| Issuer | Gujarat Sultanate |
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| Year | 1476-1496 |
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| Value | 1 Tanka |
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| Obverse lettering | ٨٨٥ |
| Reverse description | Central field bearing a two-line Arabic inscription in Naskh script giving the royal laqab and name of the sultan, enclosed within a plain circular border with an outer decorative ring of repeating arc or pellet motifs visible around the periphery of the flan. The legends are struck in moderate relief against a flat field, with slight weakness at the margins attributable to the hand-hammered technique. The overall presentation is typical of the epigraphic coinage of the Gujarat Sultanate, emphasizing the ruler's titles without figurative imagery. |
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Nasir al-din Mahmud Shah I ruled Gujarat through a period of remarkable commercial expansion, when Gujarati merchants dominated Indian Ocean trade routes from the Swahili Coast to the South China Sea. The sultanate's copper coinage of this period was produced in large volume to service a monetized local economy — quite distinct from the prestige silver issues that circulated in long-distance trade. The Cambay mint was the principal facility, though attribution of specific dies to specific mints remains contested in the literature.
KM# 65.1 distinguishes this variety within a series that saw multiple die configurations across Mahmud Shah's two-decade reign.