Silver tanka of Shams al-Din Muzzafar II (1511-1525), Gujarat Sultanate, India (G#255)

Al-Mu'ayyad bi-ta'yid al-rahman shams al-dunya wa'd bin abu'l nasr (reading upward) // Muzaffar Shah bin Mahmud Shah al-Sultan, date below (928 AH / 1521). 18mm, 7.16 grams. "The coins of the Indian Sultanates" G255.

Scarce. This date is unlisted in Goron/Goenka.

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.