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Dirham - Kaya'us II / Qilij Arslan IV / Kayqubad II
| Issuer | Rûm Sultanate |
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| Year | 1249-1259 |
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| Currency | Dinar (1016-1308) |
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| Obverse lettering | لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله الإمام المستعصم بالله أمير المؤمنين ضرب في سنة ثمان أربعين و ستمائة بقونية (Translation: There is no god except Allah, Muhammad is the messenger of Allah, the Imam Al-Musta'sim Bi'llah (the Abbasid caliph), Commander of the Faithful, struck in the year eight forty and six hundred (648) in Konya) |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Issued during one of the most chaotic decades in Anatolian history, this dirham circulates — sometimes literally within the same year — under three sultans whose reigns overlapped through Mongol-enforced co-rulership. After the Sultanate of Rûm's catastrophic defeat at Köse Dağ in 1243, the Ilkhanate reduced the Seljuk sultans to vassals, manipulating succession and occasionally installing multiple co-rulers simultaneously to prevent any consolidation of independent authority. The coinage from this period frequently reflects that ambiguity, with attribution contested even among specialists.