Malwa

12/27/2011                                                                                    link back up to main Chapter 262 Coins

museum piece

If you go to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England you will find a billon silver coin like my 1444 half tanka of Mahmud Shah I of the Malwa Sultunate , a Kingdom in central India. That's before Columbus was born but the same year King Henri VI commissioned the building of Kings College Chapel in Cambridge. Had no idea of that when I took this 

  picture of it on our 1978 trip.

I just liked the coin's style (and Cambridge University's), but it's actually just some kind of ancient Sanskrit with a few symbols thrown in. An inexpensive piece.

 No picture of Mahumd but this Shah Suri ruled a hundred years later. That's probably enough Indian history.

 reference coin

The Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, UK  likes to keep dirty money like this 1441 coin: ref: SU-2800 T3051 Minted at  Shadiabad. I prefer to clean the pieces to be more like when they were minted.

MAla-ud-Din Mahmud Shah I was the first ruler within the Khilji Dynasty .

Other Sultans of Malwa coins .

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