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Akçe - Ala al-Din Eretna ibn Jafar
| Issuer | Beylik of Eretna |
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| Year | 1352 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic/Uyghur Mongol |
| Obverse lettering | ᠰᠦᠯᠲᠠᠨ ᠠᠲᠢᠯ خلد الله ملكه [In Uyghur Mongol] Sultan Atil [In Arabic] Khulida Allah mulkuhu (Translation: The just sultan. May God perpetuate his reign.) |
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Ala al-Din Eretna ibn Jafar ruled the Eretna beylik for only a few years in the 1350s before internal fragmentation tore the dynasty apart — his father, Eretna Bey, had carved out an independent Anatolian state from the collapsing Ilkhanate, but succession proved fatal to cohesion. Coins attributable to Ala al-Din are scarce precisely because his effective authority was contested almost from the start.
The Eretna beylik operated out of Sivas and Kayseri, minting in a tradition that blended Mongol administrative habits with Sunni Turkic legitimacy claims. A#2320.2 is one of very few catalogued varieties attributed to this specific ruler.