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Fals - 'Ilkhan' Abu Sa'id Awnik mint
| Issuer | Ilkhanate |
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| Year | 1316-1335 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Mint | Awnik |
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Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan inherited the Ilkhanate throne at roughly twelve years old following the death of Öljaitü, and his long reign — unusually stable by Ilkhanid standards — saw a sustained attempt to regularize copper coinage across the fractured provincial minting network. Awnik, a town in the Armenian highlands near the upper Euphrates, operated as a regional administrative node under Ilkhanid control, which explains its inclusion among the authorized fals-issuing mints despite its modest scale.
Copper fals of this period were subject to chronic local variation in weight and module, making die-linked specimens particularly valuable for tracing mint sequences.