⅔ Gani - Mahmud Shah

Mahmud Shah Bahmani inherited a sultanate already fracturing at its edges. By the time this coin was struck, the great nobles — the Deccan Tarafdars — had accumulated enough military and administrative power to act as independent operators, and the sultan's authority was increasingly nominal. The ⅔ gani denomination itself reflects the Bahmani system's Persian-influenced weight hierarchy, subdividing the full gani in fractions that accommodated small bazaar transactions across the Deccan.

Mahmud Shah died in 1482, making attribution of this type contingent on whether it falls under him or his successor — a distinction the mint record does not cleanly resolve.