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Tanka - Jahanshah

Features

Issuer Tribal federation of Qara Qoyunlu
Ruling authority Jahan Shah ibn Yusuf (1436-1447, 1447-1467)
Type Standard circulation coins
Year 862 (1458)
Calendar Islamic (Hijri)
Value 1 Tanka
Currency Tanka (1375-1468)
Composition Silver
Weight 5.13 g
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
275502
References Album Islamic# 2493H
Stephen Album; 2011. A Checklist of Islamic Coins (3rd Edition). Self-published, Santa Rosa, California, United States.

Obverse

Script: Arabic

Reverse

Script: Arabic

Mint

Herat, Afghanistan

Comments

Struck during Jahanshah's brief occupation of Herat, style of the contemporary Timurid tankas of Herat, with the Rashidun's epithets included

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
862 (1458) 

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