Dirham 'Dang' - Jani Beg Saray al-Jadida mint

Jani Beg's reign over the Golden Horde coincided with the Black Death tearing through the western steppe in 1346–47, a catastrophe that contemporary sources — including Ibn Battuta, who had visited Jani Beg's court — describe as devastating Saray's population. The plague reached Europe partly through Mongol siege operations at Kaffa that same decade. That this silver dang was struck at Saray al-Jadida in 1352 places it within years of maximum demographic collapse across the khanate's core territory, making sustained mint output at that volume a logistical achievement worth noting.