Dirham 'Dang' - Muhammad Uzbeg Azaq mint, type of 739

Muhammad Uzbeg Khan ruled the Golden Horde from 1313 to 1341, presiding over its greatest territorial and commercial expansion. His conversion to Islam — and aggressive promotion of it across the Horde — drove a dramatic increase in mint activity, as Islamic coinage norms demanded silver currency for legitimate trade. Azaq, the Genoese-adjacent port at the mouth of the Don, was one of his most commercially vital mints, sitting at the intersection of steppe and Mediterranean merchant networks.

The "type of 739" designation reflects a die-linked classification rather than a strict annual issue — Sagdeeva's corpus groups these by stylistic and epigraphic characteristics tied to the AH 739 horizon.