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Pul 'Five-rays star with a point / 16 puls=dang' - temp. Muhammad Uzbeg Saray al-Jadidah mint
| Issuer | Golden Horde |
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| Year | 1321 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Central device comprising a bold five-pointed star (pentagram) formed by continuous interlaced lines, with a small central pellet or point at the intersection of the rays. The star is enclosed within a plain linear circle that occupies most of the flan. The design is deeply struck and clearly rendered, standing in high relief against the flat field. No subsidiary legend or border inscription is present. The motif is a characteristic type of the Saray al-Jadidah mint under Khan Muhammad Uzbeg. |
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Muhammad Uzbeg Khan's reign marked the definitive Islamicization of the Golden Horde, and his copper pul coinage reflects the administrative effort to standardize fractional exchange across a vast territory where silver dirhams dominated long-distance trade but everyday markets needed something smaller. Saray al-Jadidah — the "New Saray" — had by the early 720s AH become the principal mint for this flood of small copper.
The 16-pul-to-dang ratio stated on the coin itself is the detail worth noting: denominations explicitly inscribed on Mongol copper are far from universal, and its presence here suggests a deliberate attempt to enforce exchange rates that the market had not always respected.