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 'Lion and Sun' - anepigraphic Bulghar mint

Issuer Golden Horde
Year 1267-1274
Type Log in to see details
Value Log in to see details
Currency Dinar (1227-1502)
Composition Log in to see details
Weight Log in to see details
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 A lion passant is depicted in profile, facing either left or right depending on the die variety, with a rayed solar disc (sunface) positioned above the animal's back. The lion is rendered in a bold, stylized manner characteristic of Ilkhanid and Golden Horde artistic conventions, with the body in profile and the head shown with a prominent mane. The sunface motif, a symbol of sovereignty borrowed from earlier Seljuk and Ilkhanid iconographic traditions, features a human face surrounded by radiating rays. The field is otherwise plain and anepigraphic. The composition closely follows the 'Lion and Sun' type widely disseminated across the Mongol successor states during the mid-thirteenth century.
Reverse script Log in to see details
Reverse lettering Log in to see details
Edge Log in to see details
Mint Bulghar (Bulgar)
Mintage ND (1267-1274) - Lion facing left, Sing#74a -
ND (1267-1274) - Lion facing right, Sing#74 -
Additional information Log in to see details

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE