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Mangir - Anonymous
| Issuer | Eretna, Beylik of |
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| Year | 1351 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Reverse field exhibits heavily encrusted and corroded surfaces with faint traces of a multi-line Arabic inscription disposed across the central field, as typical of anonymous Eretna mangir coinage of the mid-fourteenth century. The legend, likely containing a religious formula or mint and date information, is largely illegible due to advanced corrosion and metal loss. The flan is irregular in shape with pronounced edge irregularities consistent with hammered copper production. No clear border or decorative framing element is distinguishable. |
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The Eretna Beylik occupied a peculiar political position in mid-14th century Anatolia — nominally subordinate to the Ilkhanids, then briefly to the Mongol successor states, before Alaeddin Ali established effective independence around 1343. Anonymous copper issues like this mangir served local markets in the Sivas-Kayseri region where silver was scarce in small transactions. The absence of a ruler's name on the copper coinage was conventional practice, not evasion.