Dirham 'Two fishes type' - anepigraphic Bulghar mint

The "two fishes" anepigraphic dirhams occupy an odd corner of Golden Horde numismatics precisely because they carry no inscription — unusual for an Islamic coinage tradition where the shahada and ruler's name were near-mandatory. Whether this reflects a local Bulgar administrative quirk, a non-Muslim minting authority operating under Mongol permission, or simply a transitional issue produced before proper die-cutters arrived, remains genuinely contested. Sagdeeva and Singatullin catalogue overlapping varieties under separate numbers, suggesting the type was struck from numerous dies across a span of decades rather than as a single deliberate emission.