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Dirham 'Dang' - Shadi Beg Ordu Mu'azzam mint
| Issuer | Golden Horde |
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| Year | 1401 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Reverse field occupied by a multi-line Arabic inscription naming the mint as Ordu Mu'azzam (the Great Horde) along with the date in the Islamic AH calendar. The calligraphy is executed in the flowing Naskh style typical of late Golden Horde silver coinage, with the text filling the available field of the irregular flan. Marginal elements are partially struck and clipped at the edges due to the small, roughly planchet. |
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Shadi Beg ruled the Golden Horde from around 1399 to 1407, a period when the khanate was fracturing badly in the aftermath of Timur's devastating 1395–96 campaign, which had sacked Sarai and effectively shattered central Horde authority. The Ordu Mu'azzam mint — "the Grand Ordu" — was a mobile mint operating from the khan's traveling court rather than a fixed city, a telling sign of how thoroughly the old urban infrastructure of the lower Volga had collapsed by this date.
At 1.08g, this piece sits below the standard dang weight, consistent with the broader debasement pattern documented across late Horde silver in this decade.