Dirham 'Dang' - Abdallah Khan, Kiliya al-Mahrusa mint

By 1369 the Golden Horde was fracturing under the pressure of nearly two decades of dynastic civil war — the period Russianchroniclers called the "Great Troubles." Abdallah Khan ruled as a puppet under the regent Mamai, who controlled the western steppe while rival khans held the east. Kiliya al-Mahrusa, on the Danube delta, was one of the few western mints still functioning under Mamai's authority, its output sustaining whatever commercial credibility the fragmented western Horde could project.

At 1.29 g this piece sits at the lower end of the debased dang standard — the cumulative effect of decades of weight reduction since the high-point issues of Özbeg Khan.