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1 Falus
| Issuer | Badakhshan, City of |
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| Year | 1883-1885 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | The obverse field is entirely occupied by a cursive Persian-script legend executed in raised relief, characteristic of the hand-engraved dies typical of late 19th-century Badakhshan hammered coinage. The inscription sprawls across the flan in a fluid nasta'liq-influenced style, with overlapping letterforms filling the available field. The flan is irregular in outline and notably convex, with the surfaces showing the uneven metal flow inherent to the primitive hammering technique. No border or decorative frame is present, the legend extending to the very edges of the coin. |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Badakhshan's municipal copper issues of the 1880s fall within the chaotic final decades before the region was absorbed into Afghan administrative control, a period when local amirs and city authorities still exercised enough autonomy to strike their own low-denomination coinage for bazaar use. Attribution of these pieces remains difficult — the A#3220 reference covers a type whose precise issuing authority within the city is still debated among specialists.