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

Jani Beg's reign marked the political apex of the Golden Horde, and the Saray al-Jadida mint — "New Saray," established upstream on the Akhtuba branch of the Volga — was its primary instrument of monetary output. By 1353, the year of this strike, Jani Beg had recently concluded a successful campaign into the Ilkhanate's Azerbaijan territories, temporarily extending Horde control further south than any of his predecessors had managed.

The plague reached the Volga steppe that same year. Jani Beg himself died in 1357, and the dynastic chaos that followed — the so-called "Great Troubles" — saw the Horde fragment rapidly. Coins from Saray al-Jadida in the early 1350s predate that collapse by a matter of years.