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Tilla - Abdul-Ahad bin Muzaffar al-Din
| Issuer | Emirate of Bukhara |
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| Year | 1886-1910 |
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| Value | 1 Tilla (21) |
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| Reverse description | Two lines of bold Arabic calligraphic legend in Naskh script fill the central field, divided by a horizontal rule, recording the mint name Bukhara (ضرب بخارا) and the regnal or Hijri date. The date appears in the upper register alongside additional pious or titular phrases. The entire inscription is enclosed within a beaded or dotted circular border with a stylised vine-and-leaf wreath, a decorative motif consistent across Bukharan gold tillas of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Pellet ornaments punctuate the border at regular intervals. |
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| Mintage | 1303 (1886) - - 1306 (1888) - - 1309 (1891) - - 1315 (1897) - - 1316 (1898) - - 1319 (1901) - - 1321 (1903) - - 1322 (1904) - 1322//1322 - 1324 (1906) - 1324//1316 - 1324 (1906) - 1324//1321 - 1324 (1906) - 1324//1324 - 1325 (1907) - 1325//1324/5 - 1325 (1907) - 1325//1325 - 1327 (1909) - - 1328 (1910) - - 1328 (1910) - 1328//1292 - 1328 (1910) - 1328//1304 - 1328 (1910) - 1328//1321 - |
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Abdul-Ahad Khan ruled Bukhara as a client emir under Russian Imperial suzerainty, a relationship formalized after the 1868 conquest that left the emirate nominally autonomous but practically a protectorate. His gold tillā continued to be struck in his name throughout his reign, a political concession the Russians permitted — local coinage served as a visible marker of retained authority that cost St. Petersburg nothing. The Bukhara mint operated on irregular schedules, and surviving tillā from this period vary considerably in flan preparation and striking quality, not from carelessness but from the workshop traditions of a pre-industrial mint.
Abdul-Ahad died in 1910 in Kerki while traveling, reportedly under ambiguous circumstances.