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Tanka - 'Shahrukhi' - Husain Ibn Baiqara Herat Mint
| Issuer | Timurid Empire |
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| Year | 1469-1506 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | In central cartouche: `bih bud harat` Field: `al-sultan al-a’zam / abu’l-ghazi husayn sultan / bahadur khallada allah ta’ala mulkahu / wa sultanahu, unread date or the three-circle Timurid tamgha (seal)` (Translation: In central cartouche: “prosperity (referring to the coin) Harat` Field: “the Supreme Sultan, Abu’l-Ghazi Husayn Sultan the Brave, may God the most high protect his sovereignty and sultanate” unread date or the three-circle Timurid tamgha`) |
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| Reverse lettering | In central quatrefoil: `la ilah illa allah / muhammad rasul allah` In marginal cartouches: `aba bakr al-sadiq, ‘umar al-faruq, ‘uthman al-‘affan, ‘ali al-murtada` (Translation: In central quatrefoil: “no god but God, Muhammad is the messenger of God” In marginal cartouches: The names of the four “Rightly Guided” Caliphs with their epithets, “Abu Bakr the faithful, ‘Umar who distinguishes truth from falsehood, ‘Uthman the Defender, ‘Ali the chosen one”.) |
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Husain Baiqara's nearly four-decade reign at Herat was the last sustained flowering of Timurid power before Shaybani Khan's Uzbek forces swept through Khorasan in 1507. The court he kept was extraordinary — Alisher Navoi served as his chancellor, Behzad was painting in his atelier — but the fiscal machinery running beneath that cultural brilliance was perpetually strained by factional warfare with his own sons.
The "Shahrukhi" denomination name recalls Shah Rukh, who had standardized this silver unit decades earlier. Herat's mint output under Husain was substantial but chronologically difficult to sequence, as regnal dating on these pieces is inconsistently applied.