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Dirham 'Dang' - Kichi Muhammad Ordu Bazar mint
| Issuer | Golden Horde |
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| Year | 1429-1462 |
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| Value | 1 Dirham / Dang / Yarmag (0.7) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Irregularly shaped hammered silver flan with a central Arabic mint legend distributed across multiple lines in the field. The inscription records the mint name Ordu-Bazar, with the text arranged in horizontal bands in a style consistent with late Golden Horde provincial coinage. Decorative dots or pellets appear as space fillers within the field. The lettering, in stylized Naskh script, is bold but somewhat roughly struck, reflecting the hammered production technique and the variable quality characteristic of this mint. |
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Kichi Muhammad ruled the Golden Horde through one of its most turbulent periods of fragmentation, when rival khans controlled competing mints and the political geography of the steppe shifted almost annually. The Ordu Bazar mint — a mobile or semi-permanent bazaar mint traveling with the court — reflects exactly that instability; coinage followed the khan, not a fixed city.
By this period, Horde dirhams had shed most of their earlier weight standards, and pieces like this one circulating at under a gram were the practical currency of a polity in fiscal contraction. Sagdeeva #595 places this type late in the sequence, consistent with the degraded weight norms of the 1440s–1450s.