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Tilla - Haydar Tora bin Shah Murad
| Issuer | Emirate of Bukhara |
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| Year | 1814-1820 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | لا اله الا الله محمد رسول الله [Date] |
| Reverse description | Central field displays a three-line Arabic inscription within a plain inner circle, giving the ruler's title and name in bold Naskh-style script. The legend reads 'Amir al-Mu'minin / Haydar Tora / Zarb Bukhara', identifying the issuing authority and mint. The surrounding border repeats the characteristic ornamental pattern of alternating pointed lobes and star punches seen on the obverse, consistent with the die-work of the Bukhara mint under Amir Haydar. The hammered flan imparts a slightly convex profile and irregular outline to the piece. The field is otherwise unadorned, in keeping with the aniconic aesthetic of Bukharan Islamic coinage. |
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Shah Murad, the Manghit ruler who preceded Haydar, had imposed an austere Islamist administration over Bukhara — banning music, restricting trade, and cultivating a reputation for personal piety unusual among Central Asian rulers. His son Haydar inherited a state ideologically rigid but fiscally functional, and the gold tilla series continued largely uninterrupted across the transition. The Manghit emirs struck tillas not merely for commerce but as instruments of political legitimacy, with each reign's coinage explicitly anchored to the ruler's name and lineage.
The A#3030.1 attribution places this among the earlier Haydar issues, before the monetary pressures of his later conflicts with the Khanate of Kokand forced debasement of subsidiary silver coinage.