Dirham - Arghun 'hexagram with Arghun al-'adil or Arghun 'adil' Damghan

Arghun Khan ruled the Ilkhanate from 1284 until his death in 1291, a reign notable for his active correspondence with European Christian powers — he sent at least three embassies to Rome and the French and English courts proposing a Franco-Mongol alliance against the Mamluks. None succeeded. His epithet *al-'adil*, "the just," appears on this Damghan issue, a mint city in the northern Iranian plateau that had functioned as a regional administrative center since pre-Islamic times. The hexagram flan format is characteristic of his silver coinage, distinguishing it from the round flans of earlier Ilkhanid issues.