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Dirham - Sultan Bakht
| Issuer | Shahs of Badakhshan |
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| Year | 1310-1315 |
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| Reference(s) | A#B2015 |
| Obverse description | Central field bearing a three-line Arabic legend in raised relief, reading 'al-Sultan / al-A'zam / Bakht' (The Greatest Sultan, Bakht), executed in angular script characteristic of early 14th-century Central Asian hammered coinage. The lettering is boldly struck within a plain field, with traces of a marginal border visible along the irregular flan edge. The coin exhibits the typical flan irregularity and surface patination associated with medieval Badakhshani silver dirhams. Minor striking weakness is visible at the periphery. |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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The Shahs of Badakhshan occupied a precarious position in the early 14th century — nominally vassals of the Chagatai Khanate, yet maintaining enough autonomy to strike their own silver. Sultan Bakht's issues from this window fall squarely within the post-Mongol regional fragmentation that allowed minor dynasts across Central Asia to assert coinage rights without necessarily holding consolidated political power.
Documentation for this series remains sparse in Western auction literature, with most attributions relying on the Album reference corpus rather than excavation records.