Dirham - Yesu Möngke Almaligh

Yesu Möngke's tenure as Chagatai Khan was brief and contested — he ruled from roughly 1246 to 1251, appointed by the regent Oghul Qaimish following Güyük Khan's death, before being deposed and executed after Möngke Khan consolidated power following the 1251 kurultai. Almaligh, the mint city in the Ili River valley, was one of the few urban centers capable of sustaining silver coinage in the region, sitting astride the Silk Road routes that made the Chagatai realm economically viable at all.

Dirhams attributable specifically to Yesu Möngke are scarce in the published literature, making the A#1981 attribution a useful anchor for a type still incompletely catalogued.