India (Bengal, Malwa Sultanate): copper falus of Mahmud Shah II, AH 930 (1524 AD)

India (Bengal, Malwa Sultanate): copper falus of Mahmud Shah II, AH 930 (1524 AD)


16 mm square, 7.97 g.

Interesting square coin of Mahmud Shah II, an infant ruler of Bengal during the Malwa Sultanate, who ruled from 1489-1490 until he was murdered, according to Wikipedia. I'm not sure why this coin attributed to 1524 would be in his name, if the attribution and/or dating are accurate? I suppose maybe it could have been a posthumous issue? Anyway, I'm relying on the prior seller's attribution here, since I personally have little knowledge of Indian coins. I just thought this one was kind of neat looking, and it was inexpensive.













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Yep. A recognized seller, then, I gather? Or maybe the tipoff was his use of a Mercury dime for scale? These are the seller's images.

I bought this a year ago, and had I not kept records of who I buy stuff from, I would have had no clue what you meant about a "Beazley buy".