Dirham 'Dang' - Muhammad Uzbeg Saqche al-Makhrusa mint

Muhammad Uzbeg Khan's reign over the Golden Horde represented the high-water mark of Mongol power on the Pontic steppe, and his silver output was enormous — yet the Saqche al-Makhrusa mint remains one of the less-documented production centers in his network. The epithet "al-Makhrusa" (the guarded, or protected) attached to mint towns carried deliberate political weight under Uzbeg, signaling urban centers under direct Khanic protection rather than delegated Mongol administration.

At 0.9g this piece sits at the lighter end of the dang standard, consistent with documented weight drift in provincial Horde mints during the 1320s–1330s.