Dirham 'Dang' - Murid Gulistan mint

Struck at Gulistan during the period historians call the "Great Troubles" — a two-decade succession crisis that saw the Golden Horde throne change hands more than twenty times between 1359 and 1380 — this dang belongs to the reign of Murid, one of several competing khans whose legitimacy extended little further than the mints they controlled. Gulistan, on the lower Volga, was one of the Horde's primary minting centers, but output during this period was erratic and often politically motivated, coins serving to assert authority as much as to facilitate trade.