Do I Have It? Bone @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ A Rare Coin Waiting to Be Discovered Sameen Tahir-Khan, Arab News ALKHOBAR, 29 March 2005 — Ghulam Ahmed toiled for 20 years as a naval supervisor not knowing he had a fortune in his own house. A rare coin, a 1200-year-old square coin which reads in Arabic 203 Hijri and has the names of Muslim caliphs, Abu Bakr, Omar, Uthman and Ali. On the other side, it has the kalima, “La Ilaha Illallah” written on it. It gives no other detail as to what country it is from or what denomination. http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=61246&d=29&m=3&y=2005
I can't see where it says any of that on the coin. Besides, the Arab News isn't exactly known for its accuracy.
Oh, I know what it is/says I thought somebody else had a differnet idea The coin is from around 916-932 AH (1510-1530) 1/2 tanka of MAHMUD SHAH II from MALWA. Malwa is a region of central India, lying in the western part of Madhya Pradesh state. From the mid-tenth century, Malwa was ruled by the Paramara clan of Rajputs, who established a capital at Dhar. King Bhoj, who ruled from about 1010 to 1060, was known as the great polymath philosopher-king of medieval India; his extensive writings cover philosophy, poetry, medicine, veterinary science, phonetics, yoga, and archery. Under his rule, Malwa became an intellectual center of India. Bhoj also founded the city of Bhopal to secure the eastern part of his kingdom. His successors ruled until about 1200, when Malwa was conquered by the Delhi Sultanate. The sacking of Delhi by the Mongol conqueror Timur in the early fifteenth century caused the breakup of the sultanate into smaller states, and in 1401 Dilawar Khan, previously Malwa's governor under the rule of Delhi, declared himself sultan of Malwa. He established a capital at Mandu, high in the Vindhya Range, overlooking the Narmada River valley. His son and successor Hoshang Shah (1405-1435) embellished Mandu. Hoshang Shah's son Ghazni Khan ruled for only a year, and was suceeded by Sultan Mahmud Khalji (1436-1469), first of the Khalji sultans of Malwa, who expanded the state to include portions of Gujarat, Rajasthan, and the Deccan. The Muslim sultans invited Rajputs to settle in the country. In the early 1500's the sultan sought the aid of the sultans of Gujarat to counter the growing power of the Rajputs, while the Rajputs sought the aid of the Sesodia Rajput kings of Mewar. Gujarat stormed Mandu in 1518 and 1531, and shortly thereafter the Malwa sultanate collapsed. The Mughal emperor Akbar captured Malwa in 1562, and made it a province of his empire. Mandu was abandoned by the seventeenth century. Bone
