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Fals - '1/2 Dangi' - Shahrukh Mirza Samarqand mint - Countermarked type
| Issuer | Timurid Empire |
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| Year | 1420 |
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| Thickness | 1.8 mm |
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| Obverse description | Irregular hammered copper flan bearing a prominent cartouche-shaped countermark applied to the host coin's surface, enclosing a multi-line Arabic legend in a compressed naskh script. The countermark occupies the left-centre of the field and is surrounded by the partially visible underlying legends of the original host fals. The surface shows heavy wear and oxidation consistent with extended circulation, with the field displaying a dark patina typical of Timurid copper coinage. The irregular flan edges and variable strike are characteristic of fifteenth-century Central Asian hammered production. |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Shahrukh's copper coinage from Samarqand presents one of the more administratively tangled episodes in Timurid monetary history. After Timur's death in 1405 fractured the empire among his heirs, Shahrukh spent years consolidating control, and the countermarked issues from his reign reflect exactly that instability — existing flans restruck or punched to validate or revalue currency as political authority changed hands across Transoxiana.
The countermark itself is the story here. It signals a deliberate administrative intervention, not a minting anomaly.