1/2 Tanka - Muhammad Khudabandah Kojur

Muhammad Khudabandah ruled the Safavid realm from 1578 to 1588 under extraordinarily difficult circumstances — nearly blind from birth, he was placed on the throne largely as a figurehead following the death of Shah Tahmasp II's more capable successors. His reign coincided with sustained Ottoman and Uzbek military pressure on both frontiers simultaneously, draining the treasury and fragmenting administrative control over the mints. That fiscal and political instability makes coherent coin series from his reign genuinely scarce. The Kojur attribution points to a regional mint in Mazandaran, a province that retained relative autonomy during periods of central weakness.