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Ashrafi - Sultan Husayn Abu'l-Ghazi - 3rd reign - Herat mint
| Issuer | Timurid Empire |
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| Year | 1504 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Central field features a lobed or pointed oval cartouche enclosing the ruler's titulature in fine cursive Arabic script, identifying Sultan Husayn Abu'l-Ghazi. Surrounding the central cartouche, multiple lines of Arabic legend fill the field with the sovereign's royal titles and epithets, rendered in flowing naskh calligraphy. The marginal inscription along the outer edge carries additional text including the mint name Herat and the regnal or Hijri date, consistent with standard Timurid gold issue conventions. The overall composition is densely inscribed, leaving minimal undecorated field area, characteristic of late Timurid epigraphy. |
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| Reverse lettering | السلطان حسين أبو الغازي هرات |
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Sultan Husayn Bayqara's third reign at Herat was less a restoration than a slow unraveling — by 1504 the Timurid grip on Khurasan was visibly loosening under Uzbek pressure from the north. He died in 1506, and within two years the Shaybanids had taken Herat entirely. Gold ashrafi struck in these final years represent one of the last coherent monetary outputs of a dynasty that had made the city a center of Persian literary and artistic culture for half a century. The epithet Abu'l-Ghazi, "Father of Warriors," reads grimly against that backdrop.