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Dirham 'Dang' - Kunche Uzkend mint
| Issuer | White Horde |
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| Year | 1381-1382 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by a multi-line Arabic legend in bold, angular script, reading 'al-Sultan Kunche Khan al-adil' (the Just Sultan Kunche Khan), struck in raised relief on an irregularly flan. The lettering is distributed across three lines, filling the field to the margins. The coin shows the characteristic hammered fabric of White Horde coinage, with an uneven, slightly concave surface and ragged edge typical of Central Asian dirhams of this period. |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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The White Horde occupied the eastern wing of the fragmented Mongol successor states, controlling the steppe territories east of the Ural River. By 1381–82, the western Kipchak steppe was convulsing under the pressures that would shortly produce Tokhtamysh's reunification of the Golden Horde — a political realignment violent enough to disrupt mint activity across the region. Uzkend, situated in the Fergana Valley, was one of the few mints continuing to strike with any regularity during this instability.
The "kunche" designation refers to a specific monetary weight standard in use across Central Asian Chaghatayid and successor-state minting, distinct from the heavier dirham norms of earlier Ilkhanid practice.