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Dirham 'Aqche' - Mahmud Hajji Tarkhan mint
| Issuer | Golden Horde |
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| Year | 1459-1466 |
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| Currency | Dinar (1227-1502) |
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| Reverse description | Central field dominated by a stylized tamga, the dynastic emblem of the ruling Jochid house, rendered in relief with flanking ornamental elements. The mint name legend in Arabic script surrounds or accompanies the tamga, identifying the place of issue as Hajji Tarkhan (Astrakhan). The design is characteristic of late Golden Horde coinage, where the tamga serves as the primary heraldic device. The strike is irregular and the flan shows typical hammered irregularities at the edges. |
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| Mintage | ND (1459-1466) - Sagdeeva #601 - ND (1459-1466) - Sagdeeva #602 - |
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The Tarkhan mint operated in the Astrakhan region during the death throes of the Golden Horde, when fragmentation had reduced former khanate territory to a collection of competing successor polities. Mahmud's reign fell precisely within this collapse — the Great Horde, as the rump state was increasingly called, was hemorrhaging territory to the Crimean Khanate in the west and Timurid pressure from the east. Coinage from Hajji Tarkhan in this period reflects improvised monetary authority: local minting continued not out of administrative coherence but because trade on the lower Volga demanded it.