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⅑ Gani - Ala al din Ahmad shah II
| Issuer | Bahmani Sultanate |
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| Year | 1436-1458 |
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| Currency | Tanka (1347-1518) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Ahmad Shah II ruled the Bahmani Sultanate through a period of sustained conflict with the Vijayanagara Empire to the south, and his copper fractional issues circulated across the Deccan markets where small-denomination exchange drove everyday commerce. The ⅑ gani sits at the lowest practical unit of the Bahmani copper system — a denomination so minor that most examples were spent hard and fast, which makes survivors in any condition genuinely scarce.