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Dirham 'Dang' - Jani Beg Saray al-Jadida mint
| Issuer | Golden Horde |
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| Year | 1342-1347 |
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| Value | 1 Dirham / Dang / Yarmag (0.7) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse field bears a multi-line Arabic legend in Naskh script, similarly arranged in horizontal registers across the coin's face. The inscription records the mint name and the Hijri date of striking, identifying the place of issue as Saray al-Jadida (New Sarai) and the year as 747 AH. The lettering is boldly struck and deeply relieved, with the characteristic angular rendering of Golden Horde workshop practice. The flan is hand-cut and irregular, with some weakness at the periphery consistent with hammered production techniques of the period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Jani Beg's reign over the Golden Horde coincided with one of the most catastrophic events in Eurasian history — the westward advance of the Black Death along Mongol trade routes. By 1346 his army was besieging Caffa on the Crimean coast when plague broke out among his troops; the subsequent catapulting of infected corpses over the city walls is among the earliest recorded instances of biological warfare, and the Genoese merchants who fled the siege likely carried the disease into the Mediterranean world.
Saray al-Jadida, the "New Saray," had replaced the original capital as the Horde's primary mint under his father Özbeg. Output from this mint during Jani Beg's tenure was prolific.