Khalil Allah's rule over Bukhara in the early 1340s fell within the chronic fragmentation of the Chagatai Khanate, where competing khans cycled through power with enough speed that coinage often outlasted the authority behind it. Bukhara remained the commercial and minting center through these instabilities, producing silver dinars even as political control shifted.
The A#2002 reference places this within Album's cataloguing of Mongol successor coinage — a classification that still sees active revision as hoards from Central Asian sites continue to surface.
Khalil Allah's rule over Bukhara in the early 1340s fell within the chronic fragmentation of the Chagatai Khanate, where competing khans cycled through power with enough speed that coinage often outlasted the authority behind it. Bukhara remained the commercial and minting center through these instabilities, producing silver dinars even as political control shifted.
The A#2002 reference places this within Album's cataloguing of Mongol successor coinage — a classification that still sees active revision as hoards from Central Asian sites continue to surface.