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Tanka - Timur with Mahmud Khan Type 3 - Damghan mint
| Uitgever | Timurid Empire |
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| Jaar | 1395-1397 |
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| Techniek | Hammered |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Central circular cartouche enclosing the mint name and AH date in Arabic script, surrounded by a broad marginal field bearing a continuous Arabic legend in cursive Naskh script. The flan is irregularly struck, as typical of hammered Timurid silver coinage, with the inscription occupying nearly the full surface of the die. Linear border elements frame the central circle, with additional decorative motifs visible in the field between the circle and the marginal legend. |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | The Shahada (Islamic declaration of faith) rendered in Kufic script, arranged within an octafoil geometric frame at the centre of the flan. The multi-line inscription reads across the field in bold, angular Kufic characters, with the lobed octafoil border providing a formal decorative structure. A marginal legend in cursive Arabic script encircles the central octafoil, separated by a linear border. The overall design is characteristic of Timurid religious coinage conventions, emphasising the primacy of the Kalima as the central iconographic element. |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
Struck at Damghan during the brief window when Timur governed nominally through the Chingisid puppet Mahmud Khan, this type reflects a calculated political fiction. Timur, barred by steppe convention from taking the khan's title himself — reserved exclusively for Genghis Khan's male-line descendants — installed Mahmud Khan as a legitimizing figurehead while retaining all real power. The dual-name formula was not courtesy; it was constitutional necessity within the Turco-Mongol world.
Damghan, an ancient staging post on the Khorasan road, served as a regional administrative node during Timur's campaigns through northern Iran in precisely these years.