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Dirham 'Dang' - Toqta Saray al-Maqrus mint
| Issuer | Golden Horde |
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| Year | 1310-1311 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | (Translation: Mint of Saray al-Maqrus, year 710) |
| Edge | Plain |
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Toqta — also rendered Tokhta — consolidated Golden Horde power after decades of internal fragmentation, and his Saray al-Maqrus mint was among the most prolific of the western steppe coinage centers. The "al-Maqrus" epithet distinguishes this Saray from the later Saray al-Jadid, a distinction that still causes misattribution in older auction catalogs.
By 1310–11, Toqta had expelled Genoese merchants from Crimea following a dispute over the slave trade — Mongol subjects being sold to Egyptian Mamluks. The economic disruption briefly pressured silver supply through Black Sea networks, making mint output from this precise window historically anchored to a specific diplomatic rupture.