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Dirham 'Dang' - Ordu Melik Saray al-Jadida Mint
| Issuer | Golden Horde |
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| Year | 1361 |
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| Currency | Dinar (1227-1502) |
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| Obverse description | Central field bearing a three-line Arabic inscription in bold Naskh script, reading 'Sultan the Just Ordu Melik Khan, may his reign be prolonged.' The lettering is densely arranged across the flan, filling the available field with characteristic Golden Horde calligraphic style. The coin is struck on an irregular planchet with typical hammered fabric, showing natural flan irregularities at the periphery. No border ornament is present, the inscription occupying the entirety of the obverse field. |
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| Obverse lettering | (Translation: Sultan the Just Ordu Melik Khan Let his rule be long) |
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1361 was a year of violent succession within the Golden Horde — the tail end of the "Great Troubles," a two-decade period of near-constant civil war during which the khanate cycled through more than twenty rulers. The Saray al-Jadida mint, established by Özbeg Khan in the 1330s as the "New Saray," was one of the few institutional fixtures that outlasted individual khans, continuing to strike through regime changes with remarkable administrative continuity.
The "Ordu Melik" attribution places this piece within a contested branch of the succession, struck in the name of a ruler whose hold on the throne was tenuous at best.