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1 Tanka - Nasir Al-Din Mahmud Shah III
| Issuer | Gujarat, Sultanate of |
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| Year | 1537-1555 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | The reverse field is entirely occupied by a multi-line Persian script inscription in Naskh style, recording the mint name and the AH regnal year of issue. A horizontal dividing line separates the upper portion of the legend from the lower, a compositional device typical of Gujarat Sultanate coinage. The script is boldly engraved in high relief on the irregularly shaped flan, consistent with hammered production. The year numeral appears prominently within the lower register of the field. |
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| Reverse lettering | ٩٦١ (Translation: 961) |
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Nasir al-Din Mahmud Shah III ruled Gujarat during its slow unraveling — the Mughal emperor Humayun seized Champaner in 1535, just before this tanka's issue period began, and the sultanate never fully recovered its territorial coherence. Mahmud III was restored and deposed multiple times, largely a pawn between the regent Imad ul-Mulk and competing noble factions. The coin exists less as an expression of sovereign authority than as evidence that the mint continued functioning through sustained political dysfunction.