Falus - Muhammad Shah I

Falus - Muhammad Shah I - obverseFalus - Muhammad Shah I - reverse

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Features

Issuer Sultanate of Bahmani (Indian Sultanates)
Sultan Muhammad I (1358-1375)
Type Standard circulation coin
Years 1358-1375
Value 1 Falus (1⁄48)
Currency Tanka (1347-1518)
Composition Copper
Weight 3.4 g
Diameter 16 mm
Thickness 3.25 mm
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered (Weight varies 3.3-3.5g)
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
189504
References GG# BH39
Stan Goron, J. P. Goenka; 2001. The Coins of the Indian Sultanates : Covering the Area of Present-day India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, New Delhi, India.

Obverse

Al-mu'ayyad bi-nasr allah

Script: Arabic

Translation: Strengthened with the help of god

Reverse

Abu'l muzaffar muhammad shah

Script: Arabic

Edge

Plain

Comments

Coinage
The coins of Muhammad Shah I depart from the Dehli prototypes and the style becomes specifically Bahmanid. Copper coins are of 4 types ranging in weight from 1.3g to 3.6g and in denomination from Falus to Half Falus.

History
A revolt by a group of Muslim nobles against Muḥammad ibn Tughluq that began in Daulatabad in 1345 culminated in the foundation of the Bahmani sultanate by Ḥasan Gaṅgū, who ascended the throne of Daulatabad as ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Bahman Shah in 1347 and soon moved his capital to the more centrally located Gulbarga on the Deccan plateau.

Much of the political and military history of the Bahmanī sultanate can be described as a generally effective attempt to gain control of the Deccan and a less successful effort to expand outward from it. The initial period of consolidation was followed by a much longer period of intermittent warfare against Malwa and Gujarat in the north, Orissa and the Reddi kingdoms of Andhra in the east, and Vijayanagar in the south.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (1358-1375)  AH 760-777

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