The Chupanid amirs never held the Ilkhanate title outright — they ruled through puppet khans, preserving the fiction of Chinggisid legitimacy while exercising real power behind it. This piece was struck in the name of the nominal Ilkhan Sulayman, the last of these figureheads, whose reign existed largely on coinage rather than in any functional political reality. By 1341, the Ilkhanate as a governing structure had effectively dissolved; Bitlis itself sat in contested territory between competing successor powers in eastern Anatolia and Azerbaijan.
The Bitlis mint attribution for this type is relatively scarce in surviving specimens.
The Chupanid amirs never held the Ilkhanate title outright — they ruled through puppet khans, preserving the fiction of Chinggisid legitimacy while exercising real power behind it. This piece was struck in the name of the nominal Ilkhan Sulayman, the last of these figureheads, whose reign existed largely on coinage rather than in any functional political reality. By 1341, the Ilkhanate as a governing structure had effectively dissolved; Bitlis itself sat in contested territory between competing successor powers in eastern Anatolia and Azerbaijan.
The Bitlis mint attribution for this type is relatively scarce in surviving specimens.