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Falus - Ibrahim Adil Shah II
| Issuer | Sultanate of Bijapur (Indian Sultanates) |
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| Year | 1580-1627 |
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| Weight | 11.52 g |
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| Obverse description | Irregular hammered copper flan bearing bold Arabic calligraphic legends arranged across the field in multiple registers. The inscription, executed in a robust Naskh-derived hand characteristic of Deccan Sultanate coinage, occupies the central and lower portions of the die. The design is framed by a partial linear border following the irregular coin edge, with the field showing typical die-struck relief and moderate surface granularity consistent with hammered production. Traces of patination in the recesses enhance the legibility of the raised lettering. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ibrahim Adil Shah II came to the Bijapur throne as a child of around nine in 1580, ruled for nearly half a century, and proved one of the Deccan's most unusual sovereigns — a Sunni sultan who composed devotional poetry to Hindu deities and the Sufi saint Gesudaraz. His coinage reflects this deliberate syncretism, issued during a reign that kept the Mughal Empire at arm's length through diplomacy as much as arms.
Bijapur copper of this period circulated alongside the issues of four rival Deccan sultanates, all minting simultaneously in a fragmented regional economy. The 1565 collapse of Vijayanagara — in which Bijapur participated — had fundamentally reshuffled Deccan trade networks, and small copper falus bore the everyday weight of that realignment.