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Falus - Floral design - Anonymous
| Issuer | City of Herat (Afghan Cities) |
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| Year | 1494 |
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| Currency | Local Rupees (1747-1891) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Mintage | 899 (1494) |
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Herat in 1494 was under the control of the Timurid sultan Husayn Bayqara, whose court had become the premier center of Persian literary and artistic culture in the eastern Islamic world — home to Jami, Bihzad, and Alisher Navoi simultaneously. Anonymous copper falus from this city and period were issued by municipal or local commercial authority rather than the sultan's central mint, which explains the absence of a ruler's name. The floral vocabulary on such pieces draws directly from the decorative idiom saturating Herati book arts and tilework of the same decade.