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1 Tanka - Nasir al din Nusrat Muhammadabad mint
| Issuer | Bengal Sultanate |
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| Year | 1518-1533 |
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| Weight | 10.37 g |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Nusrat Shah ruled Bengal from 1519 to 1532 as one of the Hussain Shahi dynasty's more capable sultans, continuing his father Alauddin Hussain Shah's policy of administrative consolidation and patronage of Bengali literature. The Muhammadabad mint is identified with the site near Gaur, the dynasty's capital in present-day West Bengal — a city so prosperous in this period that Portuguese traders called it larger than Lisbon.
The Hussain Shahi tanka maintained a notably stable silver standard across successive reigns, a rarity in late medieval South Asian monetary history.