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.
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.