Tanka - Timur with Mahmud Khan Jurjan mint

This tanka belongs to the period when Timur — having already dismembered the Chaghatayid khanate in practice — still found it politically necessary to mint in the name of a Chinggisid puppet. Mahmud Khan, a descendant of Genghis Khan, provided the legal fiction of sovereignty that Timur required to govern legitimately across territories where Mongol dynastic authority remained the only recognized source of rule. The Jurjan mint, near the southeastern Caspian, was active in this capacity during Timur's consolidation of the northeastern Iranian world following his defeat of Tokhtamysh's advance forces.