Silver tanka of Shams al-Din Muzzafar II (1511-1525), Gujarat Sultanate, India (G#242)

Al-Mu'ayyad bi-ta'yid al-rahman shams al-dunya wa'd bin abu'l nasr (reading upward) // Muzaffar Shah al-Sultan khallada allah mulkahu within a peaked square, undated issue (?). 18mm, 7.14 grams. "The coins of the Indian Sultanates" G242 var (different style, no date).

This coin is G-242, but struck in a different, much nicer, style than G-242. It also does not seem to have a date in the upper left on obverse, or additional marginal inscriptions. The coins in this style seem to be unlisted in G/G.

The Gujarat Sultanate was a medieval Indian Muslim Rajput kingdom established in the early 15th century in present-day Gujarat, India. The founder of the ruling Muzaffarid dynasty, Zafar Khan (later Muzaffar Shah I) was appointed as governor of Gujarat by Nasir-ud-Din Muhammad bin Tughluq IV in 1391, the ruler of the principal state in north India at the time, the Delhi Sultanate. Following Timur's invasion of Delhi, the Delhi Sultanate weakened considerably so he declared himself independent in 1407 and formally established Gujarat Sultanate. The end of the sultanate came in 1573, when Akbar annexed Gujarat in his empire.