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Dirham - Anonymous Bulghar mint
| Issuer | Golden Horde |
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| Year | 1280-1310 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular, Weight and diametr may vary) |
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| Obverse description | Central field bearing a stylized Jochid tamga device set within an ornamented trefoil border, the tamga rendered in low relief with characteristic angular projections. The trefoil is composed of three lobed arcs decorated with pellets and small circular ornaments. Additional pellets are scattered throughout the field. The overall composition is typical of anonymous Golden Horde coinage from the Bulghar mint, exhibiting the crude, informal striking characteristic of hammered dirhams of this period. |
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| Mint | Bulghar (Bulgar on the Volga) |
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Anonymous issues from the Bulghar mint cluster heavily in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, a period when the Golden Horde's administrative structure was fragmenting under succession disputes following Möngke Temür's death in 1280. Without a named khan on the flan, attributing these pieces to a specific reign is largely impossible — which is precisely the point. Bulghar, the senior commercial city on the Volga before Sarai eclipsed it, continued striking coin to meet local mercantile demand regardless of who held the throne downstream.
The 1.3g standard reflects a progressive debasement of the earlier, heavier Jochid dirham tradition.