Dirham - Kayqubād I type 2 - Sivas mint

Kayqubād I ruled the Seljuq Sultanate of Rûm at its territorial peak, pushing borders west toward the Aegean and east into Armenia. The Sivas mint was one of his most productive, positioned on the old Silk Road corridor where commercial traffic made silver coinage a practical necessity rather than a ceremonial one. His reign ended just years before the Mongol invasion at Köse Dağ in 1243 effectively reduced his successors to vassals — making issues from this period the last Rûm dirhams struck under genuinely independent authority.