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1 Abbasi - Anonymous Shirvan, Shamakhi
| Issuer | Shirvan Khanate |
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| 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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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.