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1/3 Gani - Kalimullah Shah
| Issuer | Bahmani Sultanate |
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| Year | 1526-1538 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Plain (irregular) |
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The Bahmani Sultanate was already effectively dead by the time Kalimullah Shah struck this coin. The kingdom had fragmented into five successor states — the Deccan Sultanates — through the 1490s and early 1500s, and Kalimullah Shah ruled little more than Bidar itself, propped up intermittently by Bijapur and Berar while the fiction of Bahmani sovereignty was maintained for political convenience. His reign overlaps almost exactly with Babur's conquest of the north and the establishment of the Mughal empire, events that rendered the Bahmani remnant geopolitically irrelevant.
Copper fractions from this terminal phase are poorly documented, with KM# 137 representing one of the thinner entries in the Bahmani series.