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Falus - Anonymous Hammered coinage Sun face type
| Issuer | Bu Shahr, City of |
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| Year | 1800 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Schematic solar face rendered in low relief at the centre of the irregular rectangular flan, with radiating elements extending outward from a circular border to suggest the sun's rays. The design is boldly conceived yet crudely executed, consistent with anonymous provincial hammered copper coinage from the Persian Gulf port of Bu Shahr. The face is depicted in a highly stylised, frontal aspect with minimal facial detail, characteristic of the local mint tradition. Surface irregularities and flan stress marks are inherent to the hammered technique employed. |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Bu Shahr — the Persian Gulf port known to Europeans as Bushire — operated with considerable commercial autonomy in the early nineteenth century, functioning as the principal British trading entrepôt on the Gulf coast. This anonymous copper issue almost certainly circulated within the local bazaar economy rather than through any formal state monetary system, filling a gap left by the chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage across southern Persia. The absence of a ruler's name was not oversight; anonymous municipal coppers of this kind were common across the region precisely to sidestep questions of political authority.
KM#1 status reflects how little-documented this issue remains among Western catalogers.