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Dirham 'Ornamental type' - anepigraphic Bulghar mint
| Issuer | Golden Horde |
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| Year | 1280-1310 |
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| Weight | 1.39 g |
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| Obverse description | Anepigraphic ornamental design featuring a central annulet or ring motif surrounded by radiating pointed star or arrow-like elements extending toward the coin's periphery. Small pellets or globules are positioned within and around the central device, imparting a decorative, non-figural character. The overall composition is executed in low relief on an irregularly shaped flan, consistent with hammered coinage of the Bulghar mint. No legends or inscriptions appear on this face. |
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| Mintage | ND (1280-1310) |
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Anepigraphic dirhams from the Bulghar mint occupy a peculiar corner of Golden Horde numismatics. The absence of any inscribed text — ruler name, date, Koranic formula — sets these apart from the overwhelmingly epigraphic output of the Jochid mints, and the precise political motivation behind the type remains unresolved. One plausible reading is emergency or supplementary striking during the succession turbulence following Möngke Temür's death in 1280, when administrative continuity at provincial mints was anything but guaranteed.
Bulghar on the Volga was among the earliest and most productive of the Horde's northern mints. The ornamental type is known in multiple die combinations catalogued under Sagdeeva's classification.