1/3 Gani - Nizam Al Din Ahmad Shah III

Ahmad Shah III ruled the Bahmani Sultanate during its slow fragmentation, a period when the central administration at Bidar was increasingly dependent on regional governors who would eventually carve the sultanate into five successor states. The fractional copper gani served workaday commerce that the silver and gold issues never touched — grain markets, toll gates, petty transactions across the Deccan.

The Bahmani copper series is notoriously difficult to attribute precisely; die alignment and flan preparation varied substantially between mints at Bidar, Gulbarga, and elsewhere.