1 Tanka - Sher Shah Suri mintless Bengal type

Sher Shah Suri's monetary reform was one of the most consequential in pre-Mughal India — his standardized silver rupee became the template that the Mughals, and later the British, built upon for centuries. The Bengal issues predate the full reform, struck during the years when Sher Shah was consolidating control over a province only recently wrested from the Mughals following Humayun's defeat at Chausa in 1539. The absence of a mint name on this type is characteristic of early Sur Bengal production and complicates precise attribution, with GG#D816 grouping several die variants under the same classification.