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11/2 Falus - Nasir al-din Mahmud Shah III
| Issuer | Sultanate of Gujarat |
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| Year | 1538-1554 |
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| Reference(s) | GG#G465 |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse lettering | السلطان غجرات |
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Mahmud Shah III came to the Gujarat throne as a minor and spent much of his reign under the effective control of powerful ministers, most notably Imad ul-Mulk. The fractional falus denominations struck during his rule reflect sustained demand for small copper coinage in Gujarat's busy port economy, where Surat and Cambay were handling a significant share of Indian Ocean trade. Fractional copper saw hard use in bazaar transactions that silver and gold could not serve.
The GG reference places this among the Goron-Goenka corpus — still the standard reference for Gujarat Sultanate copper.