Dirham 'Dang' - Tochtamysh Qrim mint

Toqtamysh is among the most consequential — and ultimately tragic — rulers the Golden Horde produced. He unified the fractured western and eastern wings of the khanate in the 1370s with Timur's backing, then had the audacity to sack Moscow in 1382. The alliance with Timur collapsed into open war, and by 1395 Timur had devastated the Horde's commercial heartland so thoroughly that many of its minting cities never recovered. This Qrim issue dates to that precipice year, struck just before the catastrophe at the Terek River ended Toqtamysh's effective control of the western steppe.