Falus - Muhammad Shah I

Muhammad Shah I founded the Bahmani Sultanate's independent coinage tradition after Alauddin Hasan Bahman Shah — the dynasty's founder — had largely relied on repurposed Tughluq-era issues. The copper falus occupied the lowest register of a monetary hierarchy that also ran silver tankas, and in the Deccan's fragmented market economy it was the denomination most likely to have actually changed hands in daily trade.

The Bahmani court at Gulbarga was actively at war with the Vijayanagara Empire through much of this reign, and copper supplies from the interior were intermittent.