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Dirham 'Rabbit type' - anepigraphic Bulghar mint
| Issuer | Golden Horde |
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| Year | 1280-1310 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Bulghar |
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The "Rabbit type" dirhams are among the more enigmatic issues of the Golden Horde's early period, produced at the Bulghar mint during a phase when the khanate's administrative apparatus was still consolidating after the upheavals following Berke Khan's reign. The anepigraphic nature — no inscriptions whatsoever — sets this type sharply apart from the overwhelmingly text-heavy coinage that defines Mongol monetary production, and no consensus explanation exists for why this mint produced pieces stripped of all legend.
Bulghar on the Volga was the dominant commercial hub of the region before Sarai rose to eclipse it, which partly explains why experimental or transitional types surface here more than elsewhere.