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11/2 Falus - Muzaffar Shah I
| Issuer | Sultanate of Gujarat |
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| Year | 1391-1411 |
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| Value | 11/2 Falus (1⁄48) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Epigraphic type. The reverse field displays a bold Arabic Naskh inscription arranged in two or more horizontal registers within a square or near-square frame, reading 'al-Sultan' (السلطان) above and the regnal year '809' (٨٠٩) below, referencing the Hijri year 809 AH (1407 CE). The lettering is deeply struck in raised relief, with the characteristic thick, chunky style of early Gujarat Sultanate hammered copper issues. The surrounding border consists of plain raised lines forming a rough rectangular cartouche. |
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Muzaffar Shah I founded the Sultanate of Gujarat in 1407 after declaring independence from the Tughluq Sultanate of Delhi, though he had effectively controlled the region as governor since 1391 — which explains why coinage attributable to his authority spans that entire earlier period. The fractional copper denominations of his reign were the workhorses of local bazaar trade along the Cambay coast, one of the busiest commercial corridors in the Indian Ocean world at the time.
The KM# A2 attribution reflects how incompletely this series has been catalogued; Gujarat's early sultanate copper remains among the more poorly documented sequences in the broader Indo-Muslim coinage literature.