80 Rati - Muhammad bin Firuz

Muhammad bin Firuz — better known as Muhammad Shah III — was a puppet sultan installed and then discarded by the powerful regent Malik Sarwar within a political framework that had entirely collapsed the Tughluq dynasty's authority. This billon piece belongs to the last convulsions of that dynasty, struck just years before Timur's 1398 sack of Delhi rendered the Sultanate a hollow shell. The rati-based weight standard it adheres to was already archaic by this reign, a system the Tughluqs had inherited and never rationalized.