Question

Muhammad bin Tughlaq’s experiment of introducing token currency could not succeed on account of 

(a) rejection of token coins by foreign merchants 

(b) shortage of copper for minting token coins 

(c) large-scale minting of spurious coins 

(d) poor quality of token currency

Answer 1

(c) The large influx of gold from his plundering of south Indian campaign led him to increase coinage weights. He enlarged the gold dinar from 172 grains to 202 grains. He introduced a silver coin, the adlis, which was discontinued after seven years due to lack of popularity and acceptance among his subjects.