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1 Tanka - Qutb-ud-Din Bahadur Shah
| Issuer | Gujarat Sultanate |
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| Year | 1531-1535 |
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| Value | 1 Tanka |
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| Obverse description | Central field bearing the Arabic numeral '۹۴۰' (940, corresponding to AH 940 / 1533-1534 CE), rendered in bold calligraphic strokes typical of Sultanate-era hammered coinage. The inscription is set within a roughly circular flan of irregular shape, with the legend occupying the majority of the die area. The script is angular and deeply struck, characteristic of the copper tanka issues of the Gujarat Sultanate under Bahadur Shah. |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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Qutb-ud-Din Bahadur Shah ruled Gujarat at the peak of its sultanate's power, but his reign was defined almost entirely by conflict with the Mughal emperor Humayun, who invaded and briefly occupied Gujarat twice in the 1530s. Bahadur Shah was killed in 1537 during a meeting with Portuguese officials off Diu — almost certainly thrown overboard — making his coinage among the last issues of an independent Gujarat before Mughal absorption effectively ended the sultanate's autonomy.