Shaybanid

905 – 1010 AH

Herat is by far the most plentiful mint for silver coins of the founder, Muhammad Shaybani, though several other mints are not especially scarce (Astarabad, Bukhara, Marw, and Samarqand), as are coins lacking the mint name altogether. For silver coins of later reigns, the only common mints are Balkh, Bukhara, and Samarqand, as well as a few issues of Tashkent (Tashkand) during the reign of Iskandar and Herat for ‘Abd Allah II. Shaybanid tankas are almost never well struck and normally exhibit significant weakness. Only coins of Muhammad Shaybani, ‘Abd al-Latif, and Nawruz Ahmad are sometimes more carefully struck, though fully-struck well-centered examples are unknown for all rulers of this dynasty. The nadir of production quality was reached during the long reign of Iskandar,