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2 Dirhams - 'Ilkhan' Sulayman Type G, Hisn mint
| Issuer | Chupanid puppet state of Ilkhanate |
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| Year | 1345 |
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| Weight | 1.2 g |
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| Obverse description | Central field features a six-pointed star-shaped hexalobe enclosing Sultan Sulayman's royal titles in Kufic Arabic script, with his name rendered in Uyghur script on the central line and the mint name Hisn (Hasankeyf) inscribed on the lowest line. Six ovoid cartouches radiate around the central hexalobe, each containing partial Arabic numerals or words constituting the regnal year of minting. The entire design is enclosed within a border of grenetis (beaded circle). The overall style is consistent with late Ilkhanid hammered silver coinage of the mid-fourteenth century. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Chupanid amirs never held the Ilkhanid throne themselves — they ruled through a succession of puppet khans while the Ilkhanate dissolved around them. By 1345, the fiction of Ilkhanid authority was threadbare; Hasan Kuchak had been assassinated three years earlier, and the dynasty was months from collapse entirely. Coins like this one, struck in the name of a nominal khan, were as much political theater as currency.
Hisn — almost certainly Hisn Kayfa on the upper Tigris — sat at the edge of Chupanid reach, and its mint activity in this period is sparsely documented.