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Falus
| Issuer | Herat, City of |
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| Year | 1588 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Mint | Herat |
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Herat in 1588 sat at a contested frontier between Safavid Persia and the Uzbek Shaybanids, changing hands repeatedly across the sixteenth century. Local copper coinage — falus — was largely a municipal affair, ignored by imperial mints focused on silver and gold, which is why attribution can be difficult and surviving pieces rarely carry full mint and date combinations legible enough to catalog with confidence.
The Zeno reference here pins this to a specific documented type, which matters: many Herati copper issues of this period circulate through collections as unattributed.