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Dirham - Mahmud ibn Pishkin citing Khwarizmshah Mangubarni
| Issuer | Pishkinid dynasty |
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| Year | 1212-1226 |
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| Thickness | 4 mm |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Mint | Ahar Mint |
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Mahmud ibn Pishkin ruled the small Azerbaijani dynasty of Arran as a vassal, and his citation of Mangubarni — the Khwarizmshah Jalal al-Din, who spent much of his reign fighting a retreating war against the Mongol advance — places this coin squarely within one of the most violent decades in medieval Islamic history. Jalal al-Din never consolidated stable authority over the Caucasus; his name on vassal coinage reflects political opportunism as much as genuine suzerainty.
The Pishkinids struck in copper when silver was increasingly difficult to guarantee, a common accommodation among minor dynasties caught between collapsing regional powers and the approaching Mongol frontier.