1 Falus Shaburghan

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Reverse description	Irregular hammered flan bearing a stylized equestrian figure in the central field, depicting a rider on horseback facing right, rendered in a schematic, folk-art style characteristic of minor Central Asian copper coinage of the early 16th century. Pellet ornaments are visible around the horse and rider motif. The surrounding border is plain, and the flan edges are ragged and uneven due to the hand-hammering technique. The design, though worn and crude, preserves the essential iconographic elements of the mounted figure type common to this region and period.
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Mint	Shaburghan
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Additional information	Shaburghan, the principal city of the Jowzjan region in what is now northern Afghanistan, issued its own copper coinage during the early Timurid successor period — a time when central authority had fragmented sufficiently that regional governors and city administrators exercised effective monetary autonomy. The falus was the workhorse denomination of bazaar transactions throughout Central Asia, and locally struck copper of this kind rarely traveled far from its city of issue. The date range spans the years when Shaybani Uzbek power was consolidating across Khorasan and Transoxiana following the collapse of Timurid rule.