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Kaserah - Hassan Shah
| Issuer | Kashmir Sultanate |
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| Year | 1469-1481 |
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| Weight | 5.42 g |
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| Reverse description | Hammered reverse displaying a cursive Arabic legend distributed across the field in flowing Naskh script, occupying the majority of the flan surface. The inscription, referencing the ruler's titulature and regnal formula, is rendered across two or three registers without a formal border. The strike is characteristically uneven, with areas of weak impression at the irregular periphery, consistent with hand-struck copper coinage of the fifteenth-century Kashmir Sultanate. Corrosion and encrustation partially obscure finer detail, though the primary legend elements remain legible. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Hassan Shah ruled Kashmir during a period of relative cultural flourishing, but his coinage tells a more complicated administrative story. The kaserah denomination was a workhorse of local bazaar exchange, circulating heavily in valley markets where silver was too valuable for small transactions. Survivors in any decent state of preservation are genuinely scarce — not because mintages were low, but because the copper alloys used in Kashmir at this period were inconsistent in quality, making these coins prone to corrosion and surface degradation over centuries in the subcontinent's damp conditions.