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Falus

Issuer Herat, City of
Year 1751
Type Standard circulation coin
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Obverse script Arabic
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Herat in 1751 sat in a contested interregnum between the collapsing Hotaki Afghan regime and the consolidating power of Ahmad Shah Durrani, whose Abdali confederation had taken the city in 1750. Local copper falus issues from this moment are poorly documented in Western numismatic literature precisely because provincial Afghan urban mints operated with considerable autonomy and irregular output, leaving attribution of individual strikes a persistent problem for catalogers.

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