1 Tanka- Shams Al-Din Ilyas Shah al Balad Firuzabad

Shams al-Din Ilyas Shah founded an independent Bengal Sultanate in 1342 after unifying the three fragmented administrative divisions of Bengal — Lakhnauti, Satgaon, and Sonargaon — under a single authority for the first time. This tanka was struck at Firuzabad, a mint city identified with Pandua, which served as the Sultanate's capital and primary mint under the early Ilyas Shahi dynasty. The "al Balad" designation in the legend distinguishes the issuing city explicitly, a practice that helps modern scholars map the geographic reach of Ilyas Shah's monetary administration across a politically consolidated but still administratively complex region.