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Dirham 'Dang' - Aziz Shaykh Gulistan mint
| Issuer | Golden Horde |
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| Year | 1365 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field bearing a multi-line Arabic legend in stylized Naskh script, reading the royal titulature of Sultan Aziz Shaykh Khan. The inscription, which proclaims the sultan's title and invokes the longevity of his reign, is arranged in horizontal registers across the flan. The lettering is bold and characteristic of late Golden Horde epigraphy, with interlocking strokes filling the field. The irregular flan edge and characteristic fabric of the hammered silver flan are consistent with mid-14th century Golden Horde coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Struck at Gulistan, one of the Golden Horde's primary mints on the lower Volga, this dang falls within the politically fractured period following the death of Berdi Beg in 1359 — a stretch of roughly two decades in which the western steppe khanate cycled through more than twenty claimants in what Russian chronicles called the "Great Troubles," or Velikaya Zamyatnya. Aziz Shaykh held the throne only briefly amid this dynastic chaos, his authority never extending cleanly across the full khanate.
Gulistan mint output from this period is notably inconsistent in die alignment and flan preparation, a direct consequence of disrupted administrative control rather than any systemic minting failure.