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Dirham - temp. Hulagu / Abaqa Qa'an al-'Adil Type
| Issuer | Ilkhanate |
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| Year | 1245-1272 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
| Obverse lettering | قاان العادل (Translation: The Just Qa`an) |
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Struck during the most turbulent decades of Ilkhanid consolidation, this type bridges the reigns of Hulagu — founder of the Ilkhanate and destroyer of the Abbasid Caliphate in 1258 — and his son Abaqa, who ruled as a nominal vassal of the Great Khan in Karakorum. The epithet al-'Adil, "the Just," on a coin issued by a dynasty that had just extinguished the caliphate carries its own historical irony. Mongol rulers adopted Islamic titulature on coinage largely as administrative pragmatism in a predominantly Muslim population, not confession.