Catalog
1/2 Tanka - Hajji Muhammad I Arabshahid
| Issuer | Khanate of Khiva (Khiva Khanate) |
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| Year | 1558-1602 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Hammered silver flan with Arabic inscriptions occupying the central field, consisting of multiple lines of script in a typical Central Asian Islamic style. The legends, rendered in angular naskh or nasta'liq, likely contain the name and titles of the ruler Hajji Muhammad I. The strike is characteristic of the period, with weak and uneven impressions across the irregular flan. The field shows typical wear and surface granularity consistent with circulated hammered coinage of the Arabshahid dynasty. |
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| Mintage | ND (1558-1602) - Abiward - ND (1558-1602) - Unknown mint - |
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The Arabshahid dynasty that Hajji Muhammad I belonged to traced its authority through the Shaybanid lineage, positioning Khiva as one of several competing successor states after the fragmentation of the Uzbek khanates in Central Asia. His reign spanned the latter half of the sixteenth century, a period when the khanate was perpetually contested between the Safavid Persian sphere to the southwest and the remaining Shaybanid power at Bukhara. Album's designation N3008 — the "N" prefix indicating an unconfirmed or provisionally attributed type — reflects how patchily documented Khivan coinage from this period remains in Western scholarship.