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Tanka - Timur with Mahmud Khan Type 3 - Yazd mint
| Issuer | Timurid Empire |
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| Year | 1395-1397 |
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| Weight | 6.2 g |
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| Obverse description | Central field dominated by a bold Arabic legend set within a circular inner border, presenting the name and titles of the issuing authority in stylized script. A secondary marginal legend in Arabic encircles the central device, running between two concentric border lines. The lettering is executed in a robust, slightly angular hand characteristic of Timurid hammered coinage of the late fourteenth century. The irregular flan results in partial striking at the periphery, with some marginal text off-flan. The overall composition reflects the epigraphic style prevalent at the Yazd mint during the joint-name coinage of Timur and Mahmud Khan. |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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This tanka falls within the brief window when Timur formally governed in the name of the Chaghatayid puppet khan Mahmud Khan — a political fiction designed to legitimize Timurid rule within the framework of Mongol dynastic tradition. Timur, lacking Chinggisid blood, could not himself claim the title of khan, so Mahmud Khan's name appeared on coinage while actual power resided entirely elsewhere. Yazd, a prosperous caravan city in the Iranian interior, maintained active mints throughout Timurid campaigns precisely because commercial continuity there served Timur's fiscal interests.