Dirham 'Dang' - Aziz Shaykh Gulistan mint

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.