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Rare Chittagong trade coinage - tanka of Bahadur (1555-1560), Bengal Sultanate

Rare Chittagong trade coinage - tanka of Bahadur (1555-1560), Bengal Sultanate

$ 263.97

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    Description

    Crude legends on both sides, dated to 960 AH (1552 AD). 28mm in diameter, 10.6 grams.  "The coins of the Indian Sultanates" B1004. SKU T1040-6220
    A wonderful high quality example of these.
    Chittagong (an area in Eastern Bengal) issued Bengal-type coins whenever it would come under the influence of Bengal Sultanate. The coins issued in Chittagong are characteristically crude, full of spelling errors and retrograde letters (like on this coin) and struck to a tanka standard (10.3-10.7 grams), not to a contemporary rupee standard used by Islam Shah (11.4 grams). All Chittagong coins are rare to very rare, and are very difficult to find.