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1 Tanka - Sher Shah Suri Shergarh Bakkar mint
| Issuer | Sur Empire |
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| Year | 1538-1545 |
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| Value | 1 Tanka |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 944 (1538) - - 945 (1539) - - 946 (1540) - - 947 (1541) - - 948 (1542) - - 949 (1543) - - 950 (1544) - - 951 (1545) - - |
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Sher Shah Suri's monetary reform of around 1542 is arguably the most consequential in pre-Mughal Indian history — he standardized the silver rupee at roughly 178 grains, a weight standard that persisted in some form through the British colonial rupee centuries later. The Bakkar mint, situated on a heavily fortified island in the Indus River in Sindh, served as a strategic production center during Sher Shah's campaigns to consolidate control over the northwest.
Shergarh Bakkar issues are among the scarcer mint attributions in the Sur series, reflecting the relatively short operational window of that facility under Suri administration.