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Fals- temp. Abaqa Tiflis Mint
| Issuer | Ilkhanate |
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| Year | 1276 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays the Shahada in Arabic script arranged in multiple lines: 'La ilaha illa Allah wahdahu la sharika lah' (There is no god but Allah, He is One, He has no associate), rendered in bold cursive Arabic within a beaded or cable inner border. The surrounding marginal legend, partially visible on the irregular flan, continues the religious formula. The reverse fabric mirrors the obverse in its hammered, irregular character, with the inscription showing moderate die wear and surface corrosion typical of Ilkhanid provincial copper issues struck at Tiflis. |
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Abaqa Khan, son of Hülegü, ruled the Ilkhanate through a period of sustained pressure on two fronts — ongoing conflict with the Chagatai Khanate to the east and repeated incursions by the Golden Horde from the north. Tiflis, absorbed into the Ilkhanid administrative sphere following the Mongol consolidation of Georgia, continued operating its mint under nominal Georgian supervision while effectively serving Ilkhanid fiscal needs. The A#2137R designation marks this as a relatively rare type within the Tiflis copper series, with Bennett Georgia #301 representing one of the few systematic cataloguing efforts for this chronologically compressed and often poorly documented regional coinage.