Gold Tanka - Nasir al-din Nusrat

Nusrat Shah ruled Bengal during one of its most prosperous periods, maintaining independence from the Lodi Sultanate at Delhi while simultaneously repelling the early Mughal incursions that followed Babur's 1526 victory at Panipat. Bengal under his reign was wealthy enough to sustain gold coinage at a weight standard that most contemporary Indian sultanates had long abandoned in favor of silver or billon.

GG#B830 is a recognized reference point for this type, though die variation across the series is considerable given the span of the reign.