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Tanka - Timur 'Tamerlane' Shushter mint
| Issuer | Timurid Empire |
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| Year | 1370-1405 |
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| Value | 1 Tanka |
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| Obverse description | Hammered silver flan with irregular edges displaying a multi-line Naskh Arabic legend arranged in horizontal registers across the field. The inscription, likely citing the ruler's name and titles, is rendered in bold calligraphic strokes characteristic of Timurid coinage. Peripheral areas show partial legends typical of hand-struck issues of this period, with the design occupying the full breadth of the flan. |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Timur's coinage policy was deliberately conservative — he struck in the name of the reigning Chaghatayid khans well into his campaigns, maintaining the legal fiction of Mongol suzerainty even as he dismembered their authority in practice. The Shushter mint, located in Khuzestan, came under Timurid control following his southwestern campaigns into the former Jalayirid and Muzaffarid territories in the 1390s.
That a tanka surfaces from Shushter at all is notable. The mint was peripheral to Timur's core Central Asian operation, activated largely to monetize tribute extraction from newly absorbed Iranian provinces.