Bahadur Shah, Copper Double Falus, 33.60g, Obv: Persian legend “al-Sultan Bahadur Shah bin Adil Shah”, Rev: Persian legend “al-Wathiq billah al-Mannan Abu al-Fateh Nasir al-Dunya wa al-Din” (Not listed in G&G). Unique so far. Very fine for type, exceedingly rare.
This is the heaviest coin of the Sultans of Khandesh to have come to light. As remarked in G&G the copper coinage of Bahadur Shah appears to have been set to a 17-gm standard and so far half and quarter / third fractions of this basic copper denomination were known. This is evidently a double denomination in the same metrological series. Bahadur Shah was the last Sultan of Khandesh and gave a tough fight to Akbar from his fortress stronghold of Asirgarh. However, his effort fell short of the Mughal power and he surrendered to Akbar in 1601.