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Dirham 'Ornamental type' - anepigraphic Bulghar mint
| Issuer | Golden Horde |
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| Year | 1280-1310 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | A six-petalled rosette occupies the central field, enclosed within a linear circle. Each petal contains four pellets arranged in a compact cluster, producing a highly stylized floral ornament. The design is entirely anepigraphic, with no legends or supplementary devices in the field. The strike is uneven, consistent with the hammered technique characteristic of Golden Horde coinage from the Bulghar mint. |
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| Mint | Bulghar (Bulgar on the Volga) |
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The anepigraphic "ornamental type" dirhams of the Bulghar mint occupy an awkward corner of Golden Horde numismatics — no ruler name, no date, no religious formula. Whether this reflects a deliberate administrative decision, a local minting convention, or simply the chaotic monetization of a peripheral trade hub remains genuinely contested. Bulghar on the Volga was a major fur and slave market, and small anonymous silver may have circulated more on weight than on issuing authority.
The thirty-year attribution window reflects the difficulty of sequencing these without textual anchors. Sagdeeva's grouping relies primarily on stylistic and metrological clustering rather than hoard stratigraphy.