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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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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Epigraphic type. The field bears the ruler's name in bold Arabic Naskh script, reading 'Muzaffar Shah' (مظفر شاه), disposed in multiple horizontal registers across the flan. The legends are rendered in raised relief against a flat field, characteristic of early Gujarat Sultanate copper coinage. The flan is irregular and thick, consistent with hand-hammered production. No border or decorative framing elements are present. |
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| Edge | Rough |
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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.