⅙ Gani - Shams-ud-din Mohammad Shah III

Shams-ud-din Mohammad Shah III ruled the Bahmani Sultanate during a period when effective power was almost entirely controlled by his prime minister Mahmud Gawan, the Persian-born administrator who managed the sultanate's finances, military campaigns, and diplomatic correspondence while the sultan remained largely ceremonial. The gani — the Bahmani copper fraction — was the workhorse denomination of local bazaar trade across the Deccan, and issues of this size circulated hard through markets where gold and silver were simply too valuable for daily transactions.