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1 Abbasi - Anonymous Shirvan, Shamakhi

Issuer Shirvan Khanate
Year 1794-1798
Type Standard circulation coin
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Obverse lettering يا صاحب الزمان
(Translation: ya saheb al-zaman Oh, Owner of Time)
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Reverse lettering شماخ ١٢-۸
(Translation: chamakh / 128 Shamakhi / 128)
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Additional information

The Shirvan Khanate was among the last of the post-Safavid successor states in the eastern Caucasus to maintain its own coinage before Russian imperial expansion extinguished regional minting entirely. Shamakhi, the khanate's principal city, had been a major silk trade hub for centuries — its economic importance was precisely what made control of it worth fighting over between Qajar Persia, the Ottomans, and an advancing Russia.

The anonymous attribution across KM# 10 and 11 reflects deliberate political ambiguity during the 1794–1798 window, when Mustafa Khan was navigating shifting alliances too volatile to commit a ruler's name to circulating silver.

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