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Attribution Of A Mongol Dirham

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I bought this at a coin shop (while vacationing in Ohio) as a 14th-century Mongol Empire dirham.

I have no resources on the era/locale, so I was wondering if anybody could help me pinpoint more info on the coin. It would be lovely to ID the mint name (if one exists) or attribute it to a particular khan (Timur would be wonderful!). At least to find out if it was from Central Asia or the Near East and such ... or if it was a generic kind used throughout all parts of the empire.

Thank you in advance, and here's the coin,
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 Posted 08/16/2012  04:46 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The "Mongol Empire" of Genghis Khan and his successors did not have a unified currency system; the Mongols were not a coin-using society and simply kept issuing whatever styles of coinages happened to be already circulating in the areas they conquered; cash coins and paper money in China, Arabic-language dirhams in Iran, and so forth. Their own titles would appear on the coins, of course, and occasionally, one of their own Mongolian languages, which looks close enough to Arabic to be easily confused with it.

Now to the identity of your coin. I wish I could report it was from one of the famous world-graspers, but alas it is not; I believe it is from the Ilkhanid ruler, Arghun. This coin is a close match on zeno.ru, but I'm having a terrible time spotting either the date or mint-name on any of these Uighur-language Ilkhanid coins.
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