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¾ Tanka - Ghiyas Shah
| Issuer | Malwa, Sultanate of |
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| Year | 1468-1500 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Square hammered flan with Arabic inscriptions arranged across the field in two principal registers. The upper portion bears a multi-line Arabic legend in Naskh script, while the lower register displays the AH regnal year. The coin exhibits the characteristic irregular square shape of Malwa Sultanate copper coinage, with bold raised lettering against a flat, patinated field. |
| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Ghiyas-ud-Din Khalji ruled Malwa for nearly four decades, a tenure remarkable for its political stability in a region perpetually contested between the Sultanates of Delhi, Gujarat, and the Bahmani kingdom. His reign is documented as unusually cultured — later chronicles describe a court heavily oriented toward music, poetry, and the patronage of women scholars — which makes the administrative regularity of his copper coinage all the more notable. Fractional tankas in copper served the lowest tiers of market exchange where silver was simply too valuable for everyday transactions.