Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Dirham - 'Ilkhan' Hulagu Khan
| Issuer | Ilkhanate |
|---|---|
| Year | 1256-1265 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | 2.78 g |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | مَنكو قاآن / إيلخان / هولاكو خان |
| Edge | Rough |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Hulagu Khan's western campaign destroyed the Abbasid Caliphate in 1258 — the sack of Baghdad ended five centuries of caliphal authority and killed Caliph Al-Musta'sim, reputedly by wrapping him in felt so that royal blood would not touch the ground. The early Ilkhanate coinage issued under Hulagu reflects this transitional chaos: no unified mint policy existed yet, and issues vary considerably across minting centers in Persia and the Jazira.
Hulagu himself was a shamanist with a Christian wife and Buddhist leanings, which left early Ilkhanid coins notably free of the Islamic formulae that would dominate later in the dynasty under Ghazan Khan's conversion in 1295.