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[[Image:SA50-0529.jpg|550px|thumb|Stephen Album sale 50, lot 529]]

This specimen was lot 529 in Stephen Album sale 50 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2024), where it sold for $216. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "[[India, Bengal Presidency|BENGAL]]: Ala al-Din Husain Shah, 1493-1519, AR tanka, Dar al-Darb, AH922, a fantastic lustrous mint state example! NGC graded MS66."

Wikipedia comments, <blockquote>"The Bengal Sultanate was a Sunni Muslim monarchy with Bengali, Turco-Persian, Pashtun and Abyssinian elites. The most prominent dynasties were the Ilyas Shahi, House of Ganesha and Hussain Shahi dynasty. The empire was known for its religious pluralism where non-Muslim communities co-existed peacefully. While Persian was used as the primary official, diplomatic and commercial language, it was under the Sultans that Bengali first received court recognition as an official language. The cities of the Bengal Sultanate are termed as Mint Towns where the historical taka was minted. In 1500, the royal capital of Gaur was the fifth-most populous city in the world. Other notable cities included the initial royal capital of Pandua, the economic hub of Sonargaon, the Mosque City of Bagerhat, and the seaport and trading hub of Chittagong. The Bengal Sultanate was a major trading center on the coast of the Bay of Bengal. Bengali ships and merchants traded across the region, including in Malacca, China, and the Maldives."</blockquote> The Bengal sultanate was conquered by the Mughals, a process that took fifty years and was completed around 1576, when the last sultan was captured and killed at the battle of Rajmahal.

''Recorded mintage:'' unknown.

''Specification:'' silver.

''Catalog reference:'' G-B736.

''[[Bibliography|Source:]]''
* Album, Stephen, ''Checklist of Islamic Coins, 3rd Ed.'' Santa Rosa, Stephen Album Rare Coins, 2011.
* <sup>[1]</sup>Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, ''Auction 50, featuring selections from the Dr. Robert A. Rosenfeld Collection, the Hakim Hamidi Collection, the Almer H. Orr III Collection and the Solar Collection'', Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.

''Link to:''
* [[Bengal AH 907 tanka]], 'Ala al-din Mahmud Shah I
* [[Bengal AH 925 tanka]], Nusrat Shah, Husainabad mint
* [[Coins and currency dated 1516]]

[[Category:Selections from Stephen Album sale 50]][[Category: Coinage of the Indian states]]

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 [[Image:SA50-2439.jpg|550px|thumb|Stephen Album sale 50, lot 2439]]
-The first specimen was lot 529 in Stephen Album sale 50 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2024), where it sold for $216. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "[[India, Bengal Presidency|BENGAL]]: Ala al-Din Husain Shah, 1493-1519, AR tanka, Dar al-Darb, AH922, a fantastic lustrous mint state example! NGC graded MS66." The second specimen was lot 2439 in the same sale, where it sold for $96. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "BENGAL: 'Ala al-Din Husain, 1493-1519, AR tanka, Khazana (the treasury), AH922, G-B709, NGC graded MS64."
+The first specimen was lot 529 in Stephen Album sale 50 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2024), where it sold for $216. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "[[India, Bengal Presidency|BENGAL]]: Ala al-Din Husain Shah, 1493-1519, AR tanka, Dar al-Darb, AH922, a fantastic lustrous mint state example! NGC graded MS66." The second specimen was lot 2439 in the same sale, where it sold for $96. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "BENGAL: 'Ala al-Din Husain, 1493-1519, AR tanka, Khazana (the treasury), AH922, NGC graded MS64."
 Wikipedia comments, <blockquote>"The Bengal Sultanate was a Sunni Muslim monarchy with Bengali, Turco-Persian, Pashtun and Abyssinian elites. The most prominent dynasties were the Ilyas Shahi, House of Ganesha and Hussain Shahi dynasty. The empire was known for its religious pluralism where non-Muslim communities co-existed peacefully. While Persian was used as the primary official, diplomatic and commercial language, it was under the Sultans that Bengali first received court recognition as an official language. The cities of the Bengal Sultanate are termed as Mint Towns where the historical taka was minted. In 1500, the royal capital of Gaur was the fifth-most populous city in the world. Other notable cities included the initial royal capital of Pandua, the economic hub of Sonargaon, the Mosque City of Bagerhat, and the seaport and trading hub of Chittagong. The Bengal Sultanate was a major trading center on the coast of the Bay of Bengal. Bengali ships and merchants traded across the region, including in Malacca, China, and the Maldives."</blockquote> The Bengal sultanate was conquered by the Mughals, a process that took fifty years and was completed around 1576, when the last sultan was captured and killed at the battle of Rajmahal.
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 ''Specification:'' silver.
-''Catalog reference:'' G-B736.
+''Catalog reference:'' G-B736, the second specimen G-B709.
 ''[[Bibliography|Source:]]''

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 [[Image:SA50-0529.jpg|550px|thumb|Stephen Album sale 50, lot 529]]
-[[Image:SA50-2055.jpg|550px|thumb|Stephen Album sale 50, lot 2055]]
+[[Image:SA50-2439.jpg|550px|thumb|Stephen Album sale 50, lot 2439]]
 The first specimen was lot 529 in Stephen Album sale 50 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2024), where it sold for $216. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "[[India, Bengal Presidency|BENGAL]]: Ala al-Din Husain Shah, 1493-1519, AR tanka, Dar al-Darb, AH922, a fantastic lustrous mint state example! NGC graded MS66." The second specimen was lot 2439 in the same sale, where it sold for $96. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "BENGAL: 'Ala al-Din Husain, 1493-1519, AR tanka, Khazana (the treasury), AH922, G-B709, NGC graded MS64."