1/2 Tanka - Hajji Muhammad I Arabshahid

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.