History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c8.124

c8.124

Nelson Wright, Catalogue of the Coins in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, II, p. 59. Rogers, Catalogue of the Coins in Indian Museum, Calcutta, p. 62. Forced currency, Tughluqpur, 730 A.H. Brass, Wt. about 140 grains. Obv.—‘He who obeys the Sultan, surely he obeys the Merciful’; margin in Persian, ‘(struck) in the territory of Tughluqpur, alias Tirhut, in the year seven hundred and thirty.’ Rev.—In Persian, ‘‘stamped as a tankah current in the reign of the slave, hopeful (of mercy).’ Muhammad Tughluq.