Rare Kararani Rupee

303, Lot: 660. Estimate $250. Sold for $215. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Islamic Sultanates. Bengal. Da’ud Shah Kararani. AH 980-984 / AD 1572-1576. AR Rupee (30mm, 11.27 g, 11h). Tanda mint. Dated AH 980 (AD 1572/3). Kalima in three lines within linear quadrate border; names of four caliphs in margin / Name and titles of Da’ud Shah Kararani in four lines within linear quadrate border; in exergue, “śri daud shahi” in Devanagari; additional title, mint formula and date in outer margin. CIS B982; Rajgor Type 598. Near EF, toned, traces of deposits. Rare.

The Kararanis were Afghans who became powerful under the Suris. After 971 AH, the brothers moved to Lakhnauti but only the younger brother Da'ud issued coins, After the death of his father and older brother he eventually became sultan in 980. He moved his capital to Tanda but after a major battle with the Mogul Emperor Akbar he was forced to submit, but died shortly afterwards from a 'virulent estilence'. All his coins are rare.