1 Fals - Anonymous Lahijan

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.