Falus - Anonymous Tirmidh

Tirmidh — modern Termez in southern Uzbekistan — sat on the Oxus crossing that funneled trade between Khorasan and Transoxiana for centuries. By the early fifteenth century the city operated under Timurid authority, and anonymous copper falus of this type circulated as the smallest denomination in a monetary hierarchy topped by silver tangas. Attribution to Tirmidh relies almost entirely on the Zeno corpus, where die comparisons across catalog entries 8956 and 21840 have helped separate the city's output from the broader anonymous Timurid copper pool — a notoriously difficult group to assign with confidence.