Tanka - '3 Miri' - Husain Ibn Baiqara Countermarked type - Samarqand

Husain Bayqara's long rule over Khorasan from Herat was the last genuine flowering of Timurid power — a court that patronized Jami, Bihzad, and Alisher Navoi while the dynasty's grip on Transoxiana steadily collapsed. The Samarqand countermark on this piece reflects that fragmentation directly: local monetary authority asserting control over coins struck elsewhere, a practice that multiplied as Timurid successor territories struggled to maintain coherent currency systems in the face of Uzbek pressure from the north.

The '3 Miri' designation indicates a fiscal valuation stamp rather than a denomination struck at issue — applied after the fact to fix exchange rates within a specific market or administrative zone.