Dirham 'Dang' - Muhammad Boraq Ordu Bazar mint

The years 1425–1428 fall within one of the most turbulent successions the Golden Horde ever endured — a period historians sometimes call the "Great Troubles," when rival khans cycled through power so rapidly that mints were issuing coins in a claimant's name before his authority was even consolidated. Muhammad Boraq was among those short-lived contenders, and Ordu Bazar, the mobile capital-market town that moved with the khan's court, was the expected seat of legitimizing production.

At 0.78g, this piece sits at the lower end of the debased dang standard that had eroded significantly from the Toqtamish-era norm.