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⅙ Dinar - Tughluq Timur Badakhshan
| Issuer | Moghulistan |
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| Year | 1359-1364 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Tughluq Timur is a pivotal but often overlooked figure in Central Asian history — the first Chaghatayid khan to formally convert to Islam, reportedly bringing some 160,000 of his subjects with him in a mass conversion around 1354. His coinage from Badakhshan, issued during a period when he was actively consolidating control over both the eastern and western branches of the former Chaghatai Khanate, reflects that legitimizing project. The Badakhshan mint was geographically strategic, sitting at the crossroads of routes connecting Afghanistan, Transoxiana, and the Tarim Basin.
The A#2011A reference places this among the rarer fractional issues of his reign.