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1 Jital - Taj al-Din Nasr ibn Bahramshah
| Issuer | Later Saffarids of Sijistan |
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| Year | 1221 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by a multi-line Arabic inscription in bold relief, arranged in horizontal registers across the flan. The lettering, executed in a robust early medieval Naskh-influenced style, fills the central zone with the ruler's name and titles. A dotted ornamental device appears in the lower central field, characteristic of Later Saffarid copper coinage. The flan is irregular and slightly uneven, consistent with hand-struck hammered production of the early 13th century AH. |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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The Later Saffarids of Sijistan were a dynasty clinging to marginal autonomy in what is now the Sistan region straddling eastern Iran and Afghanistan — a borderland constantly pressured by larger powers. Taj al-Din Nasr ibn Bahramshah issued coinage during a period of acute instability, as the Mongol advance under Genghis Khan was already dismantling the Khwarazmian Empire to the north and west. Sijistan would itself fall under Mongol domination within a generation. Coins of this phase are correspondingly scarce; the dynasty's output was never prolific, and copper jitals from this precise reign seldom appear in the trade.