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Silver Tanka of Jalaluddin Fath Shah (Bengal)

Started by coinlover, March 16, 2015, 09:22:28 AM

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Jalaluddin Fath Shah (reigned: AD 1481–1487) was the last ruler of later Ilyas Shahi dynasty of Bengal. He was the brother and successor of Sultan Shamsuddin Yusuf Shah.

No reference of military expedition lead by Fath Shah is found. But from the numismatic evidence it can be presumed that his kingdom extended to Sylhet in the east and to the river Damodar in the south west. During his reign, the Habshis took important and influential positions in his court. Fath Shah took some measures to take back control. But a conspiracy rose against him and later he was assassinated by the commander of the Habshi palace-guards, Shahzada, in 1487.

By his death, the rule of Ilyas Shahi dynasty came to an end.

(Source : Wikipedia)

This is a silver tanka of Fath Shah with year written on obverse as (AH) 886. Weight is 10.54 grams and diameter is 25.3 mm. (Ref. G/G B 607). Mint is perhaps Fatahbad.


Anjan


NB. One interesting thing I note is that style and thickness of lettering is different between two sides. Is it because of erroneous die pairing ? A sultanate mule, perhaps . Experts please comment.

Figleaf

In a system where one die is mounted in a block and one die is held in hand, the die in hand will wear faster than the one in the block. Therefore, more hand-held dies were made and die pairs are not necessarily in the same handwriting.

I am wondering about the round punch at 4 o'clock on the right picture...

Peter
An unidentified coin is a piece of metal. An identified coin is a piece of history.

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Fateh Shah was uncle of Yusuf Shah, brother of Rukn al din Barbak and son of Nasir al din Mahmud.

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