Najm al-Din Ghazi II ruled Mardin as a vassal caught between collapsing Mongol Ilkhanate authority and the rising pressure of the Mamluk sultanate to the southwest. His coinage was issued during a period when the Artuqid dynasty's autonomy was increasingly nominal — copper fals production continued largely as a local economic necessity, not as an assertion of independent power. The dynasty would survive only another two decades before Mardin finally fell under direct Mongol and then Timurid domination.
Najm al-Din Ghazi II ruled Mardin as a vassal caught between collapsing Mongol Ilkhanate authority and the rising pressure of the Mamluk sultanate to the southwest. His coinage was issued during a period when the Artuqid dynasty's autonomy was increasingly nominal — copper fals production continued largely as a local economic necessity, not as an assertion of independent power. The dynasty would survive only another two decades before Mardin finally fell under direct Mongol and then Timurid domination.