Tanka - Timur

Timur ruled one of the largest land empires of the 14th century while maintaining the legal fiction that he governed as regent for a puppet Chinggisid khan — his coinage reflected this carefully. Tankas of this period were typically struck in the name of a nominal Chinggisid sovereign, not Timur himself, preserving the Mongol legitimizing framework he never formally abandoned despite conquering from Delhi to Ankara.

The Samarkand mint was his most prolific, though attribution to specific mints within the Timurid system requires reading the mint name in the coin's inscriptions rather than relying on type alone.