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Dinar - Kaya'us II / Qilij Arslan IV / Kayqubad II
| Issuer | Rûm Sultanate |
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| Year | 1250-1260 |
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| Weight | 4.62 g |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Plain |
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This dinar was struck during one of the most turbulent decades in Anatolian history, when the Rûm Sultanate had effectively ceased to function as a sovereign power following the Mongol defeat of Sultan Kaykhusraw II at Köse Dağ in 1243. The three sultans named on this issue — Kaya'us II, Qilij Arslan IV, and Kayqubad II — were brothers installed in a deliberate co-regency by the Mongol Ilkhanate to prevent any single ruler from consolidating enough authority to resist.
The arrangement was imposed, not chosen. Actual governance ran through Mongol-appointed officials, and the sultanate's gold coinage during this period functioned partly as a demonstration of continued Ilkhanid fiscal control over Anatolia.