Dirham - 'Ilkhan' Ahmad Tekudar

Ahmad Tekudar was the first Ilkhan to convert to Islam, taking the name Ahmad after his conversion and attempting to reorient Mongol policy in Persia toward the Muslim majority population. His reign lasted only two years before he was overthrown and executed by his nephew Arghun, who favored the Buddhist and shamanist factions within the Mongol nobility. The coinage issued under his name marks a genuine, if short-lived, shift in the dynasty's religious identity — the first Ilkhanid dirhams to carry Islamic formulae reflecting a ruling khan's personal faith rather than political calculation.

The brevity of his reign keeps surviving examples relatively scarce across all mints.