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2 Dirhams - 'Ilkhan' Sati Beg
| Issuer | Chupanid puppet state of Ilkhanate |
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| Year | 1339 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | The first part of the Shahada (Islamic declaration of faith) is inscribed in two lines at the center within a circle of globules, with the remainder of the kalima continuing around the perimeter in the four fields of a quatrefoil cartouche inscribed in a circle. The names of the four Rightly Guided Caliphs — Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, and Ali — are inscribed between the lobes of the quatrefoil. The design is framed by a beaded grenetis border. |
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Sati Beg was the only woman to reign as Ilkhan, placed on the throne in 1338 by the Chupanid amir Hasan Kuchak after a succession of short-lived male rulers had destabilized what remained of the Ilkhanate. Her coinage — struck in her name with the Ilkhan title — is numismatic evidence of Chupanid political theater: the coins legitimized Hasan Kuchak's power while projecting the fiction of a functioning Mongol succession. She was deposed within a year and married off to a rival claimant, Togha Temür.