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Dirham 'Duck type' - anepigraphic Bulghar mint
| Issuer | Golden Horde |
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| Year | 1280-1310 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field features a tamga symbol enclosed within two concentric circles. Eight small six-pointed stars are evenly distributed in the annular space between the inner and outer circles. The design is anepigraphic, bearing no inscription or legend. The flan is irregular and slightly scyphate in places, characteristic of hammered Jochid coinage of the Bulghar mint. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The "duck type" designation refers to a group of anepigraphic Jochid dirhams whose attribution to Bulgar has been debated — the absence of any mint name or ruler inscription makes precise assignment difficult, and scholars have shifted these coins between attributions more than once. Sagdeeva's classification places this type within a late 13th to early 14th century horizon, a period when the Golden Horde's western mints were producing considerable variety in fractional and subsidiary coinage, some of it deliberately uninscribed for reasons that remain unclear.