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⅙ Dinar - Muhammad Shah
| Issuer | Badakhshan, Shahs of |
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| Year | 1380-1389 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a multi-line Arabic legend in angular script, arranged in horizontal registers across the central field, with letterforms characteristic of late 14th-century Central Asian Islamic numismatic tradition. A horizontal dividing line bisects the field, separating the upper and lower sections of the inscription. The strike is moderately well-centered on the irregular flan, with some weakness at the periphery. The design is entirely epigraphic, consistent with contemporary Badakhshan coinage, with no figural or geometric decorative elements present. |
| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Badakhshan, the mountainous region straddling what is now northeastern Afghanistan and Tajikistan, maintained a semi-autonomous dynastic structure well into the Timurid period. The Shahs of Badakhshan operated their own mint partly because the region controlled access to the Amu Darya trade routes and the famed ruby mines of Shighnan — revenue streams worth protecting with sovereign coinage. Muhammad Shah's issues from this decade fall squarely within a period of fractured authority across the eastern Iranian world following Timur's campaigns.
The A#2017M reference places this within Album's cataloging of the post-Ilkhanid successor dynasties, a classification that underscores how thinly documented many of these provincial issues remain.