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1 Fals - Anonymous Lahijan
| Issuer | Lahijan |
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| Weight | 11.43 g |
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| Reverse description | Central field bears a multi-line Arabic legend in Nasta'liq script, reading the mint formula proclaiming the place of striking. The inscription is arranged across the field within a circular dotted or beaded border, typical of Lahijan local copper coinage. The flan is irregular and shows characteristic surface porosity and patination of hammered provincial copper issues. No date appears on this anonymous type. |
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| Mint | Lahijan Mint |
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Lahijan, a small city on the Caspian littoral of Gilan province, operated as an independent political center under local rulers whose anonymity on the coinage was likely deliberate — in periods of shifting Timurid and Turkmen suzerainty, omitting a ruler's name reduced the risk of a coin becoming politically obsolete overnight. Album 3246 places this type within a tight cluster of provincial Caspian issues that are poorly documented precisely because Gilan's damp climate destroyed most archival records and corroded much of the surviving copper.