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1 Dinar - Qutlugh Turkan Kirman
| Issuer | Qutlugh-Khanid dynasty |
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| Year | 1278-1279 |
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| Composition | Gold |
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| Reverse description | Central field bearing a multi-line Arabic inscription in raised Naskhi script arranged in horizontal registers, recording the ruler's name and titles along with the Shahada or related formulaic religious text. The legends are boldly struck and well-defined against the flat field. A marginal circular legend in Arabic script is contained within a plain linear border ring. The overall layout follows the conventional aniconic epigraphic style standard to Qutlugh-Khanid gold coinage of the late thirteenth century. |
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| Mintage | ND (1278-1279) |
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Qutlugh Turkan was one of the few women to rule as sovereign in the medieval Islamic world, governing the Qutlugh-Khanid dynasty of Kerman as atabeg following the death of her husband. Her authority was recognized — and constrained — by the Ilkhanate, under whose nominal suzerainty the dynasty operated. That political accommodation is precisely why her name appears on coinage at all: the Mongol overlords permitted client rulers considerable ceremonial latitude, including the minting of gold dinars, provided loyalty was demonstrated through tribute and military cooperation.
Her coinage years are few. She died in 1283, and the Kerman branch itself collapsed within a generation.