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Fulus - Anonymous Shamakhi
| Issuer | Shirvan Khanate |
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| Reference(s) | A#3261 |
| Obverse description | Irregular oval flan with a centrally placed decorative device in low relief, featuring a stylized floral or foliate motif with pellets arranged in a cluster to the left, accompanied by a curved ornamental element suggestive of an arabesque scroll. The design is rendered in a crude, provincial hammered style typical of anonymous Shirvan Khanate copper coinage. The field is plain, with no surrounding legend. The overall execution reflects the informal character of local fulus issues from the Shamakhi mint. |
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| Mint | Shamakhi |
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The Shirvan Khanate's anonymous copper fulus present persistent attribution headaches — no ruler's name, no regnal date, and mint names that were sometimes omitted entirely or rendered in forms that blur across successive issues. The Shamakhi attribution here rests on die-link evidence and fabric comparison rather than explicit legend. Shamakhi served as the khanate's principal seat until the 1806 Russian absorption of Shirvan, and copper coinage from its final autonomous decades survives in wildly uneven condition owing to the corrosive soils of the South Caucasus.