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1 Tanka - Nasir al din Nusrat Dar-al-Zarb
| Issuer | Bengal Sultanate |
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| Year | 1519-1521 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by a multi-line Arabic legend arranged in horizontal registers, bearing the mint name Dar al-Zarb within a defined inner border. The inscription is struck in bold relief characteristic of Bengal Sultanate hammered coinage, with the mint designation partially legible and the regnal date unclear due to die wear and the irregular flan. A dotted or linear circular border frames the entire legend field. |
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| Mintage | 925 (1519) - - 927 (1521) - - |
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Nasir al-Din Nusrat Shah ruled Bengal for roughly a decade following the death of his father Alauddin Husain Shah, the dynasty's most celebrated sultan. His reign, though stable by the standards of the Bengal Sultanate, was overshadowed by a defining event: the first Mughal invasion of Bengal under Babur's general, which Nusrat Shah managed to repel through a negotiated settlement in 1529 — but that conflict postdates this tanka's issue window. These coins fall squarely in the early reign, before the Mughal pressure materialized.
Dar-al-Zarb as a mint attribution remains debated among specialists working with the Husainid series.