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Dirham 'Ornamental type' - anepigraphic Bulghar mint
| Issuer | Golden Horde |
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| Year | 1280-1310 |
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| Weight | 1.26 g |
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| Reverse description | Anepigraphic reverse displaying an elaborate curvilinear ornamental design centered on a prominent concentric circle motif surrounded by interlocking scroll-like vegetal flourishes radiating outward across the field. Pellets are interspersed among the scrollwork, enhancing the decorative character of the composition. The design bears no inscription or mint name, consistent with the purely ornamental typology of this Bulghar issue. The relief is boldly struck relative to the coin's small module, with the irregular flan edges typical of hammered Golden Horde silver coinage. The stylized scrollwork reflects a regional artistic vocabulary blending steppe and Islamic decorative traditions. |
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| Mint | Bulghar |
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The anepigraphic Bulghar dirhams pose one of the more stubborn attribution problems in Golden Horde numismatics. Lacking mint names or ruler titles, these pieces were long treated as a catch-all category before Sagdeeva's work brought greater order to the series. The ornamental type specifically appears to have been struck during a period of administrative flux in the western ulus, when the Volga Bulgar region was being consolidated more tightly under Mongol fiscal control following the disruptions of Berke Khan's reign.
The weight of 1.26g sits at the lower end of the Bulghar dirham standard for this window, consistent with a gradual debasement trend documented across the 1290s issues.