Lot 149
Bengal Sultan Nasir Al-Din Mahmud Shah No Mint abu'l mujahid type Gold Tanka
Auction # 27 Lucknow (Online)
- Estimated Price (INR)
- 180000 - 200000
- Opening Bid -
- Catalog Reference #
- G&G # B406
- Metal Composition
- Gold
- Lot Grade/Condition
- very fine
- Diameter
- 18.90 mm
- Weight
- 10.65 gms
- Denomination
- Tanka
- Calendar/Year
- AH 837-864, 1433/34-1459 AD
Bengal Sultanate, Nasir Al-Din Mahmud Shah (AH 837-864, 1433/34-1459 AD), Gold Tanka, 10.65 gms, 18.90 mm, No Mint, 'abu'l mujahid' type, Obv: Arabic legend al mu'ayyad bi-ta'yid al-rahman khalifat allah bi'l hujjat wa'l burhan (vice-regent of God by proof and testimony), Rev: Arabic legend nasir al-dunya wa al-din abu'l mujahid mahmud shah al-sultan, Nasir al-Din Mahmud Shah was a Sultan of the Bengal Sultanate who ruled from 1435 to 1459 CE (AH 839–863); he was the son of Jalal al-Din Muhammad Shah and a member of the Ilyas Shahi dynasty, and his reign is regarded as a period of political stability and administrative consolidation, marked by diplomatic relations with neighboring powers such as China and strong patronage of Islamic scholarship, architecture, and coinage, with his well-executed and widely issued coins forming an important and highly regarded series in the numismatic history of medieval Bengal, G&G # B406, very fine, very rare.