1 Tanka - Shams-ud-din Muzaffar Shah II

Muzaffar Shah II ruled Gujarat for over three decades, but the tankas attributed to his later reign — covering the years immediately before the Mughal incursion under Humayun — were struck under mounting political pressure from both the Deccan Sultanates and the expanding Timurid threat from the north. Gujarat's mint output during this window was substantial; the Sultanate controlled the commercially vital port of Surat and the revenue to sustain serious coinage production. Billon issues of this type circulated alongside gold and silver in a tiered economy that served one of the busiest trade corridors in the medieval Islamic world.