Lot 301
Bengal Sultan Ala Al-Din Husain Shah Silver Tanka
Auction # 22 Lucknow (Online)
- Estimated Price (INR)
- 1000 - 1200
- Current Bid -
- Catalog Reference #
- G&G # B766A
- Metal Composition
- Silver
- Lot Grade/Condition
- very fine
- Diameter
- 25.30 mm
- Weight
- 9.85 gms
- Denomination
- Tanka
- Calendar/Year
- AH 899-925, 1493-1519 AD
Bengal Sultanate, Ala Al-Din Husain Shah (AH 899-925, 1493-1519 AD), Silver Tanka, 9.85 gms, 25.30 mm, Mint ? This type with its border of dots between a double circle has a mint name that looks somewhat like Khazana but seems to end in bad, there is also a waw to the left of mulkahu, The date has been read as 931 but the "1' could just as easily be an alif, part of the mint name, 931 is an unlikely date for this ruler, even as a fictitious date as these were usually early or obscure, and not posthumous, G&G # B766A, very fine, very scarce.