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Gold Tanka of Gujarat Sultanate of Nasir ud-Din Mahmud Shah I of Muhammadabad urf champanir Mint.

Currency:INR Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:250,000.00 INR Estimated At:250,000.00 - 275,000.00 INR
Gold Tanka of Gujarat Sultanate of  Nasir ud-Din Mahmud Shah I of Muhammadabad urf champanir Mint.
Gujarat Sultanate, Nasir ud-Din Mahmud Shah I,Muhammadabad urf Champanir, Gold Tanka, AH 902, Obv: "al wathiq bitayid -ur rahman" legend, Rev: mahmud shah al sultan khallada mulkahu, 11.60g, 22.40mm, (GG # G 78), about very fine, ExtremelyRare.

Goron and Goenka lists this as RRR on the rarity scale.Saurashtra
was won by Mahmud I and he consolidated the Sultanate of Gujarat then. Champanir
(Muhammadabad) was also called as Shehr-e-Mukkaram which means the great city.
Now known as Champaner is located in Panchmahal district of Gujarat, 47
kilometers from Vadodara; this city was briefly the capital of Gujarat during the rule of Sultans. It was
captured on 21st November 1484 after a siege lasting 20 months and Mahmud spent
the next twenty years modifying and embellishing the fort with many buildings.