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1 Fals - Nasr b. Ibrahim Bukhara, broad fals
| Issuer | Western Qarakhanid Khaganate |
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| Year | 1068-1080 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Mint | Bukhara |
| Mintage | ND (1068-1080) |
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The Western Qarakhanid Khaganate by the 1070s was under acute pressure from the expanding Seljuk sultanate to the south, and Nasr b. Ibrahim's authority over Transoxiana was exercised in an increasingly constrained political orbit — nominally independent, practically a tributary relationship. Copper fals of this period served local market exchange in the Bukhara region while silver coinage circulated at higher commercial levels.
Album 3367 covers a broad-flan type, distinguished from the smaller dumpy flans of earlier Qarakhanid copper issues by the wider spread of the die across the planchet.