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⅙ Dinar - Soyurghatmïsh Khan Badakhshan
| Issuer | Chagatai Khanate |
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| Year | 1381 |
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| Weight | 0.98 g |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Soyurghatmïsh was installed as a puppet khan by Timur in 1370, providing the conqueror with a Chinggisid figurehead behind whom he could exercise real power — Timurid policy required a legitimate descendant of Genghis Khan to occupy the nominal throne. Coins struck in Soyurghatmïsh's name from Badakhshan, a region prized for its ruby mines and mountain trade routes, date from precisely the period when Timur was consolidating control over Transoxiana through a series of brutal campaigns against rival amirs.
At under a gram, this fractional denomination served local market exchange in a region where full dinars rarely changed hands at the village level.