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1 Tankah - Sanda Wizaya
| Issuer | Arakan, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1710-1731 |
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| Currency | Tankah |
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| Reverse script | Bengali |
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| Mintage | ND (1710-1731) |
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Arakan's coinage of this period reflects a kingdom already in slow administrative decline, sandwiched between Mughal Bengal to the west and Burmese pressure mounting from the east. The Sanda Wizaya who issued this tankah ruled during a succession crisis that had destabilized the Mrauk-U dynasty for decades — his own claim to the throne was contested. Silver tankah production under his reign was tied directly to the kingdom's dwindling but still-active coastal trade networks, particularly the Bengal delta routes where Arakanese merchants competed with Dutch and Portuguese intermediaries.
The twenty-one year span of this type's production reflects administrative continuity rather than prosperity.