1/3 Gani - Shams-ud-din Mohammad Shah III

Shams-ud-din Mohammad Shah III ruled the Bahmani Sultanate largely as a figurehead under the effective control of his prime minister Mahmud Gawan, the Persian-born scholar-administrator who dominated the Deccan's political affairs for nearly two decades. The Gani denomination itself was a fractional unit of the Bahmani copper coinage system, and issues from this reign were struck across multiple provincial mints as Gawan aggressively expanded and then struggled to hold together a sultanate increasingly fractured by factional rivalry between Dakhni and Afaqi nobles. Gawan was eventually executed in 1481 on a forged treason charge — the sultanate never recovered.