Dinar - Ilchigiday Samarqand

Ilchigiday ruled the Chagatai Khanate during a period of intense internal fracture, when the western and eastern halves of the khanate were pulling apart under competing dynastic pressures. Samarqand, as a major commercial hub on the Silk Road, remained a critical mint city precisely because its output underpinned trade networks that the khans depended on for revenue regardless of who nominally controlled the throne.

The A#1990.2 reference places this within Zeno's broader Chaghatayid sequence, where attribution often hinges on mint name and regnal formula alone — die-linked specimens from Samarqand in this period are rarely documented in volume.