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AV 20-ratti Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khalji
| Issuer | Sultanate of Bengal (Indian Sultanates) |
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| Year | 1193-1206 |
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| Currency | Tanka (1342-1576) |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
| Reverse lettering | al-Sultan al-mu`azzam abu muzaffar Muhammad bin Sam |
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Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khalji never actually ruled Bengal as a sultan in the formal sense — he was a military commander under Qutb ud-Din Aibak who carved out control of Bihar and Bengal through a series of raids beginning around 1193, most infamously destroying Nalanda. Coins issued in his name occupy an ambiguous space between campaign currency and proto-sultanate coinage, predating any consolidated Bengali dynastic mint apparatus by decades.
The GG#B2 reference places this within Goron and Goenka's corpus, where attributions for this commander's issues remain contested due to the extremely small number of confirmed specimens.