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4 Gani - Ghiyath al-din Tughluq
| Issuer | Delhi Sultanate |
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| Year | 1316-1327 |
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| Currency | Tanka (1206-1526) |
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| Obverse lettering | al-sultan al-ghazi ghiyath al-dunya wa`l din |
| Reverse description | Irregularly shaped hammered billon flan bearing a multi-line Arabic legend across the field, reading 'abu'l-muzaffar tughluq shah al-sultan', identifying the ruler by his laqab Abu'l-Muzaffar (Father of the Victorious) and his regnal name Tughluq Shah al-Sultan. The inscription is distributed in horizontal registers covering the full die area, with residual legend elements visible at the flan periphery. Decorative pellet or dot separators are interspersed between elements of the inscription, a common feature of Tughluq-period coinage. The coin exhibits the rough, uneven surface texture and irregular outline typical of hand-struck Delhi Sultanate issues of this era. |
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Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq founded the Tughluq dynasty after overthrowing the last Khilji sultan in 1320, but billon coinage of this type was already circulating before he seized power — the denomination predates his reign and continued largely unchanged through the transition. The Tughluq administration inherited and maintained the fractional billon structure of the Delhi monetary system rather than immediately imposing a new coinage identity, which makes precise attribution to specific regnal years within this window genuinely difficult.