The Nicholas Rhodes Collection: Coins of North East India (Part 2)。Sultans of Bengal, Ala al-Din Husain (AH 899-925; AD 1493-1519), commemorative Tankas (2), fourth victory type, Muhammadabad, AH 925, 921, legends as previous lot (G&G B. B.746), first slightly crimped and with a flan defect on the reverse, good very fine, second, extremely fine (2). Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer?s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.。Muhammadabad was the only mint operating during the Husaini dynasty that consistently had the actual date of striking on the coins. Other mints had fixed dates or a mixture of actual dates and garbled dates. On the first of these two coins where the date has been read as AH 925 (a date not recorded in G&G for this ruler), the last digit is not altogether certain but it does resemble most a 5, albeit "on its back".
