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Dinar - Chingiz 'Genghis' Khan Bukhara
| Issuer | Great Mongol Empire |
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| Year | 1221-1227 |
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| Composition | Gold |
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| Reverse lettering | بخارا لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له محمد رسول الله |
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| Mintage | ND (1221-1227) - - 623 (1226) - - |
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Bukhara fell to the Mongols in early 1220 after Chinggis Khan personally led the assault, reportedly riding his horse into the Friday mosque and declaring the city's wealth forfeit as divine punishment on its Muslim rulers. Gold coinage struck in his name from Bukhara during the subsequent years represents one of the earliest formal monetary assertions of Mongol authority over a conquered urban mint — a city that had been, until months before striking these coins, one of the great intellectual and commercial centers of the Islamic world.
The Bukhara mint resumed operation remarkably fast after the sack, suggesting deliberate Mongol policy rather than organic recovery.