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Fals - '1/2 Dangi' - Shahrukh Mirza Samarqand mint - Countermarked type

Issuer Timurid Empire
Year 1420
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Value Fals (7⁄120)
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Obverse lettering نيم دانكي سمرقند
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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.

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