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1 Tanka - Sikandar bin Iliyas Shah Al Balad Firuzabad Mint
| Issuer | Bengal Sultanate |
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| Year | 1357-1389 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Densely packed Arabic calligraphic legends in bold relief fill the entire field in a characteristic Bengal Sultanate hammered style, with no figurative imagery. The inscription is arranged in multiple horizontal registers across the coin face, bearing the full royal titulature of Sultan Sikandar Shah ibn Iliyas Shah. The script is angular and stylized, typical of mid-fourteenth-century Bengal epigraphy, with each line of text separated by shallow incuse dividing lines. The legends occupy the full flan, with the text reading from the obverse face outward to the rim. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays multi-line Arabic calligraphic legends in high relief, arranged concentrically with a central field inscription surrounded by a marginal legend. The central area bears a devotional formula in bold hammered script, while the outer marginal band carries the mint and date information. The inscription is enclosed within a circular border, beyond which a decorative rope or cable pattern runs along the rim. The overall composition is characteristic of Bengal Sultanate coinage, combining religious invocation at center with administrative detail at the margin. |
| Reverse script | Arabic |
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