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1 Tanka - Shams-ud-din Muzaffar Shah II
| Issuer | Sultanate of Gujarat |
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| Year | 1512-1526 |
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| Currency | Rupee (1396-1583) |
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| Obverse description | Hammered billon tanka struck in the Gujarat Standard type, displaying multiple lines of Arabic script in the Naskh style arranged across the irregular round flan. The legend occupies the entire obverse field, divided by a horizontal line into upper and lower registers, with the royal titulature of Sultan Shams-ud-din Muzaffar Shah II rendered in deeply struck Arabic calligraphy. The flan shows characteristic irregularity typical of hand-struck sultanate coinage of the period. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse of this hammered billon tanka displays Arabic inscriptions arranged in multiple registers across the field, divided by a prominent horizontal bar into upper and lower sections. The regnal year in Arabic numerals appears in the field, with the date reading 92x (corresponding to a Hijri year in the 920s AH). The calligraphy follows the Gujarat sultanate convention, with bold Naskh-style lettering filling the irregular flan. The surface shows typical die wear and flan irregularity consistent with hammered coinage of the early sixteenth century. |
| Reverse script | Arabic |
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