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1 Tanka - Shams al-din Yusuf Shah 4Chamber Type
| Issuer | Bengal Sultanate |
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| Year | 1474-1481 |
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| Currency | Tanka (1342-1576) |
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| Obverse lettering | شمس الدنيا و الدين ابو المظفر يوسف شاه السلطان بن باربك شاه السلطان بن محمود شاه السلطان |
| Reverse description | The reverse displays the Islamic declaration of faith (Shahada) and the names of the four Rightly Guided Caliphs arranged in horizontal registers within a rectangular four-chambered panel. The central field bears the Kalima in bold naskh Arabic script, divided across two lines, with the names of Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, and Ali inscribed beneath. A secondary marginal legend in Arabic fills the surrounding annular field. The layout is consistent with the orthodox Sunni affirmation standard on Bengal Sultanate silver tankas of this period. The strike is characteristic of hammered coinage, with slight weakness at the flan edges. |
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Shams al-din Yusuf Shah ruled Bengal for roughly seven years before being deposed, a reign squeezed between the longer and better-documented tenures of his predecessors and successors in the Ilyas Shahi line. The four-chamber type represents a specific die arrangement used by the Bengal mint at Firuzabad during this period, distinguishing it from the more common single-field layout and making it a useful chronological marker for collectors working through the sultanate's coinage sequence.