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Dirham 'Dang' - Abdallah Shahr al-Jadida al-Mahrusa mint
| Issuer | Golden Horde |
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| Year | 1364-1369 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | Central field bearing a multi-line Arabic inscription in bold Naskh script, recording the mint name and regnal year. The legend reads across three lines and references the protected city of Shahr al-Jadida (the New City) with the adjective al-Mahrusa (God-protected), followed by the Hijri date 766. The flan is irregular with a slightly raised rim at points, consistent with the hand-struck fabric of Golden Horde silver dirhams. The field is plain with no additional decorative devices. |
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| Mint | Shahr al-Jadida al-Mahrusa (New City) |
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The years 1364–1369 fall squarely within the catastrophic civil war known as the Great Troubles — the Urus Khan and Mamai power struggle that fractured the Golden Horde into competing factions, each striking coin in their own controlled mints to assert legitimacy. Shahr al-Jadida al-Mahrusa, "the New Guarded City," was almost certainly a mint epithet applied to a town whose identity remains disputed among scholars, the administrative geography of the lower Volga having been thoroughly disrupted by this period of near-continuous dynastic violence. Abdallah was a khan repeatedly used as a figurehead by Mamai, with actual authority resting elsewhere.