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Tanka - Ibrahim Bahadur Khan Ruler at Balkh
| Issuer | Shaybanid Local Issuers (Bukhara) |
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| Year | 1599-1600 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Central square cartouche enclosing the mint name and regnal date in Arabic script in the nastaliq style, consistent with late Shaybanid coinage conventions. Surrounding legends fill the remaining field within the irregular hammered flan, likely including religious formulae or supplementary royal titles. The layout mirrors the obverse in its geometric framing, presenting a balanced bilaterally symmetrical composition characteristic of this series. |
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| Mintage | 1008 (1599) - - 1009 (1600) - - |
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Ibrahim Bahadur Khan governed Balkh as a subordinate ruler under the Shaybanid framework in its final, fractured years. By 1599–1600, the dynasty that had displaced the Timurids from Transoxiana a century earlier was collapsing under pressure from the Safavids to the west and internal succession disputes. Local Shaybanid princes increasingly issued coinage in their own names as central authority from Bukhara disintegrated — this tanka is a direct material record of that devolution.
Album 3001 is sparsely represented in major collections, reflecting both low survival rates and limited original mintage from provincial Balkh.