INDIA, Islamic Sultanates. Delhi. Islam Shah, AH 952-959 / AD 1545-1552. Rupee (Silver, 33 mm, 11.33 g, 12 h), ‘1477’ type, no mint, AH 959 = AD 1552. Within a square, ‘lā ilāha illā Allāh / Muḥammad rasūl Allāh’ (‘There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah’ in Arabic); the names and titles of the four Rashidun Caliphs in the margin, ‘[Abūbakr al-ṣiddīq / ʿUmar] al-fārūq / ʿUthmān al-ʿAffān / ʿAlī al-murta[ḍā]’ (‘Abubakr the Truthful, ʿUmar the Distinguisher [between Right and Wrong], ʿUthman son of ʿAffan, ʿAli the one with whom Allah is pleased’ in Arabic). Rev. Within a square, ‘Islām Shāh ibn / Shīr Shāh Sulṭān / khallada Allāh mulkahū 959’ (‘Islām Shāh ibn Shēr Shāh Sulṭān khallada Allāh mulkahū’ in Arabic); in the margin, some other titles of the ruler together with a Nāgarī rendition of his name, mostly off flan; in the top margin, ‘1477’. Goron & Goenka D980. Nicely toned. Some deposits and two test marks, otherwise, good very fine.