Fals - Abaqa Armenian Type, Dmanis?

Abaqa Khan, who ruled the Ilkhanate from 1265 to 1282, maintained an unusually complex relationship with his Armenian Christian subjects and allies — his own mother was a Nestorian Christian, and his military campaigns frequently relied on Armenian and Georgian cooperation against the Mamluks. The Armenian-type fals coinage issued under his name reflects that political accommodation, adopting local aesthetic conventions to ease acceptance in the Caucasian borderlands.

Dmanis, a fortified town in what is now southern Georgia, sat at a crossroads of Ilkhanid administrative and commercial pressure during the 1280s. Attribution to this mint remains tentative.