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Pul 'two-headed eagle type' - Jani Beg Saray al-Jadida mint
| Issuer | Golden Horde |
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| Year | 1342-1357 |
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| Weight | 1.5 g |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | A boldly rendered two-headed eagle depicted with both heads facing outward in opposite directions, the necks joined at a central body shown en face with spread wings filling the field. The plumage is rendered with stylised feather detailing, with the tail feathers displayed in a fan arrangement at the lower portion of the design. The motif is characteristically derived from earlier Anatolian Seljuk and Byzantine heraldic traditions adopted by the Golden Horde for its pul coinage, executed in a somewhat schematic, heavily stylised manner consistent with hammered copper issues of the mid-14th century. |
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Jani Beg's reign over the Golden Horde marked the political apex of the khanate before the Black Death tore through the Pontic steppe in 1346–47, killing a significant portion of the population and destabilizing the succession that followed his death in 1357. Saray al-Jadida — New Saray — had been established by his father Özbeg as a deliberate administrative statement, and Jani Beg continued striking copper puls there in volume to serve the dense commercial traffic of the lower Volga corridor.
The two-headed eagle motif on this type reflects the remarkable iconographic eclecticism of Mongol successor coinage, drawing on Seljuk and Byzantine visual vocabulary without contradiction.