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Dirham 'Zoomorphic type' - anepigraphic Bulghar mint
| Issuer | Golden Horde |
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| Year | 1280-1310 |
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| Currency | Dinar (1227-1502) |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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| Mint | Bolghar Mint |
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The anepigraphic zoomorphic dirhams of the Bulghar mint occupy a genuinely odd corner of Golden Horde numismatics. Struck at Bulghar on the Volga — the Horde's most productive northern mint — these pieces abandon the Arabic inscriptions standard to Islamic coinage entirely, substituting animal imagery with no text identifying ruler or authority. Whether this reflects a deliberate concession to a non-literate local market, a transitional administrative gap, or something else remains unresolved among specialists.
Sinochkin's attribution and the Zeno corpus place them firmly in the late 13th to early 14th century window, a period of succession instability following Möngke Temür's death in 1280.