Dirham - Genghis Khan 'Chingiz Khan' Ghazna mint

Ghazna — modern Ghazni in Afghanistan — had been one of the great minting centers of the Islamic world under the Ghaznavid sultans, and the Mongols were pragmatic enough to keep it running after the conquest. These dirhams were struck using existing Islamic administrative infrastructure, with Arabic calligraphy retained not out of religious conviction but because the local workforce and dies demanded it. The Mongol leadership had no interest in reforming a mint that was already producing usable coin.

Tye 327 is among the scarcer attributable Chingizid silver types from this mint, predating the more systematized Il-Khanid coinage that followed later in the century.