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Fals - "Ilkhan" Muhammad Khan Erzurum
| Issuer | Ilkhanate (late period, under Jalayirid influence) |
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| Year | 1336-1338 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a multi-line Arabic inscription filling the central field, likely containing the mint name Erzurum (Arzan al-Rum) and the date or regnal formula, arranged horizontally within an informal border. The lettering is bold and somewhat roughly executed, typical of provincial Ilkhanid copper coinage struck at peripheral mints during the dynastic fragmentation of the 1330s. The flan is irregular with uneven edges and surface porosity consistent with a base copper alloy and hammered production technique. |
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| Reverse lettering | ضُرب في أرزن الروم |
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Muhammad Khan's two-year reign fell during the terminal fragmentation of the Ilkhanate, when regional commanders were effectively selecting and discarding puppet khans in rapid succession. Erzurum, sitting astride the Anatolian trade routes into Tabriz, retained enough commercial importance that local copper coinage continued to be struck even as the central administration in Persia collapsed entirely. This fals would have circulated in a city already slipping toward Jalayirid and later Eretnid control.