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Tanka - Ghiyath al-Din II Pir `Ali
| Issuer | Kart dynasty (Greater Iran) |
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| Year | 1370-1389 |
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| Reference(s) | Album Islamic#2353A |
| Obverse description | Central field dominated by a multi-line Arabic religious legend arranged within a circular inner border, featuring flowing Naskh calligraphy. The Shahada or related Islamic invocation is inscribed across several lines in the central roundel. An ornate arabesque band, composed of interlacing foliate scrollwork in high relief, encircles the central text panel between the inner and outer borders. The outermost border carries an additional Arabic marginal legend in Naskh script. The entire design reflects the refined hammered-coin aesthetic characteristic of late Kart dynasty coinage from Khurasan. |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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The Kart dynasty ruled Herat as nominal vassals — first of the Ilkhanids, then the Timurids — but Ghiyath al-Din II Pir ʿAli governed during the precarious interlude between those two powers. His reign ended in 1389 when Timur sacked Herat, executed him, and effectively erased the Kart line from history. Coins from his tenure are the dynasty's last independent issues.
Album 2353A is among the scarcer Kart types. Herat's mint output in this final decade was almost certainly disrupted by Timurid military pressure well before the city fell.