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1 Tenga - 'Arab Muhammad Walid of Balkh
| Issuer | Walid of Balkh |
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| Year | 1720-1732 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Central field bearing the Kalima (Islamic declaration of faith) in Arabic script, arranged within a dotted circular border. The legend is distributed across the field in the typical manner of Central Asian hammered copper coinage. The outer rim is irregular and shows the characteristic flattened edge of a hand-struck flan. |
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| Reverse lettering | لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله |
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Arab Muhammad Walid ruled Balkh as a semi-autonomous Uzbek amir during a period when the city's political allegiance was perpetually contested between the Bukharan Khanate and the encroaching power of the Safavid and later Afsharid Persians. The Balkh mint had operated intermittently for centuries under whoever held the city, and these bronze tengas represent a local fiduciary coinage with limited regional reach — Balkh's economy ran heavily on the caravan trade connecting Central Asia to Khorasan and India.
Album 3026 is sparsely documented, and confirmed die varieties for this ruler remain poorly catalogued in Western references.