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Dirham 'Dang' - Khizr Azaq mint
| Issuer | Golden Horde |
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| Year | 1359-1361 |
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| Diameter | 15 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by a bold multi-line Arabic legend arranged in two registers, reading the name and titles of Khan Khizr. The inscription, rendered in a characteristic Golden Horde epigraphic style, fills the flan to its irregular margins without a defined border. The script is deeply struck in high relief against a flat, unadorned field, with no figurative devices or decorative elements. The coin's hammered fabric produces a slightly cupped, uneven flan typical of mid-14th-century Golden Horde silver coinage. |
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| Reverse description | Central field bearing a multi-line Arabic legend identifying the mint name and the AH regnal year, arranged in horizontal registers. The inscription is framed above by a prominent arch or cartouche element and bordered above and below by rows of raised pellets forming decorative dot borders, a characteristic ornamental device of Golden Horde coinage of this period. The legend is struck in high relief on the irregular hammered flan, with the mint name and date clearly legible within the pellet border. |
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Khizr Khan's reign over the Golden Horde lasted barely two years before he was murdered in 1361, making issues from his brief rule among the most historically compressed coinage of the entire Jochid sequence. The Azaq mint — the Horde's major commercial hub on the Don estuary, known to Genoese merchants as Tana — was one of the few operating consistently through the dynastic chaos of the 1360s, a period later called the Great Troubles, or Velikaya Zamyatnya, during which the khanate cycled through more than two dozen claimants in roughly twenty years.
Sagdeeva's corpus remains the primary reference for classifying these Azaq dirhams by die pairing.