MALWA Hoshang 1404-35 AD falus
$15.00
MALWA, Hoshang, 1404-35 AD, falus, no date, Shadiabad mint, Obverse: name and titles, Reverse: mint, mintmark is a dot, copper, 14mm, 3.56g, GG-M6, VF
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Description
Hoshang Shah was the first Sultan of independent Malwa. Malwa emerged from provincial status under the Sultans of Dehli.
Malwa broke away from the Delhi Sultanate after the invasions of Tamerlane. Skulduggery ensued, various nobles, royals, and generals making moves against each other for 150 years until 1561, when the Moghul Emperor Akbar I invaded and conquered it.
The earliest ancient Indian coins were the “bent bar” punchmarked silvers of the Achaemenid Persians occupying Gandhara in northwest Pakistan. By the 3rd century BC coins were in general use in most of India and Ceylon, and in subsequent centuries struck round coins in gold, silver, and copper came into use throughout the subcontinent and beyond to Southeast Asia and Pacific islands to Java and beyond.
