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6 Dirhams - 'Ilkhan' Taghay Timur Amul mint
| Issuer | Ilkhanate of Persia |
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| Year | 1338-1346 |
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| Weight | 4.20 g |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by a multi-line Arabic legend arranged in horizontal bands within a plain interior border, the whole enclosed by a braided or beaded outer marginal border. The inscription, executed in angular Kufic-influenced script typical of late Ilkhanid coinage, contains the name and titles of the ruler Taghay Timur. The flan is irregular in shape, as characteristic of hammered production, with portions of the marginal legend occasionally falling off the coin's edge. |
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| Mint | Amul |
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Taghay Timur ruled as a regional Ilkhanid successor in Khorasan and Tabaristan after the main Ilkhanate had effectively dissolved — the central authority in Persia had collapsed entirely by 1335 with the death of Abu Sa'id, leaving a scramble of short-lived pretenders. The Amul mint, situated near the Caspian coast in Tabaristan, remained intermittently active through these fractious years precisely because local governors needed coin to pay troops and maintain a semblance of legitimacy.
Taghay Timur was eventually killed in 1353, his hold on the region never fully secure after the rise of the Sarbadars.