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Dirham - 'Ilkhan' Abaqa Khan
| Issuer | Ilkhanate |
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| Year | 1265-1282 |
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| Value | 1 Dirham (0.7) |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears the Islamic Shahada in Arabic script, arranged in multiple lines within a border: 'La ilaha illa allah wahdahu la sharika lahu muhammad rasul allah salla allah alayhi wa-alihi wa-sallama' (There is no god but God alone, He has no partner; Muhammad is the messenger of God, may God bless him and his family and grant them peace). The inscription is the principal design element, executed in a stylized Kufic or Naskh hand typical of Ilkhanid hammered silver coinage, with no figurative imagery present. |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Abaqa, son of Hülegü, ruled the Ilkhanate as a committed ally of Byzantium and the Crusader states against the Mamluk Sultanate — a strategic alignment that made his court one of the more unusual diplomatic nodes of the 13th century. He corresponded directly with multiple popes and sent delegations to the Council of Lyon in 1274 seeking a coordinated military campaign that never materialized. The Mongol coinage of his reign reflects the administrative consolidation his father began after the sack of Baghdad in 1258, with mints operating across former Abbasid territory now reminted under Ilkhanid authority.