Abd Allah II Khan consolidated Shaybanid control over Badakhshan in the 1580s after a prolonged campaign against the region's semi-independent Timurid holdouts. Badakhshan's mines — historically among the most productive sources of gold, lapis lazuli, and rubies in Central Asia — made it a prize worth the effort, and local coinage followed conquest almost immediately as a assertion of administrative control.
The quarter mithqal weight standard used here reflects the Shaybanid adaptation of Timurid monetary practice rather than a clean break from it.
Abd Allah II Khan consolidated Shaybanid control over Badakhshan in the 1580s after a prolonged campaign against the region's semi-independent Timurid holdouts. Badakhshan's mines — historically among the most productive sources of gold, lapis lazuli, and rubies in Central Asia — made it a prize worth the effort, and local coinage followed conquest almost immediately as a assertion of administrative control.
The quarter mithqal weight standard used here reflects the Shaybanid adaptation of Timurid monetary practice rather than a clean break from it.