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1 Dinar - Abu Bakr Qaratuz
| Issuer | Wakhsh, Emirate of |
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| Year | 1206 |
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| Currency | Dinar (628/632-1598) |
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| Obverse description | Epigraphic type dinar with multiple horizontal lines of Arabic Kufic-derived script occupying the central field, arranged in four or five registers within a plain inner circle. The legend, struck on an irregular planchet typical of hammered medieval Islamic coinage, contains the religious formula and the name of the ruler Abu Bakr Qaratuz. A dotted or cable border runs along the outer periphery of the flan. The surface exhibits the characteristic uneven strike and flan irregularities consistent with hand-hammered gold coinage of the early 13th century. |
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| Edge | Plain. |
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Wakhsh was a minor administrative district in the upper Oxus valley — present-day Tajikistan — that briefly asserted autonomous coinage rights in the early thirteenth century as Ghurid central authority fragmented. Abu Bakr Qaratuz was a local governor operating within that vacuum. Within two decades, the entire region was obliterated by the Mongol advance; coins struck here in this period are among the few material traces of a political order that was simply erased.