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Fals - '1/2 Dangi' - Timur

Issuer Timurid Empire
Year 1370-1405
Type Standard circulation coin
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Reverse script Arabic
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Edge Plain
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Timur's copper coinage has long been treated as an afterthought beside his silver tangas, but the fals circulated where silver didn't — in markets, at city gates, among the craftsmen rebuilding Samarkand after he made it his capital in 1370. The half-dangi denomination served the daily arithmetic of bazaar trade across Transoxiana and Khorasan for the full thirty-five years of his campaigns.

Attribution within this series is complicated by the decentralized nature of Timurid minting, with multiple cities — Samarkand, Bukhara, Herat, Balkh — striking copper concurrently under varying local supervision and without consistent dating.