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Yakgani - Ala Ahmad Shah II
| Issuer | Bahmani Sultanate |
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| Year | 1435-1457 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a multi-line Arabic legend in Naskh script, filling the entire field, with the text arranged in horizontal registers across the flan. The raised inscription includes titles and epithets associated with the Bahmani sultan, consistent with the epigraphic conventions of Deccan sultanate coinage. A horizontal line divides the lower register, beneath which additional text or a partial mint formula appears. The overall execution is bold but irregular, typical of hammered copper issues of the mid-fifteenth-century Bahmani mint. |
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Ahmad Shah II ruled the Bahmani Sultanate during a period of intense factional pressure from the Deccan nobility — the so-called Afaqis versus Deccanis rivalry that would eventually tear the sultanate apart entirely within decades of his death. His reign saw the court at Bidar consolidated as the administrative and cultural center following his father Firuz Shah's chaotic later years. The yakgani denomination itself was the base copper unit of Bahmani accounting, and survivors in any condition are scarce given copper's vulnerability to the Deccan soil.