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Jou - temp. Kublai Khan

Issuer Great Mongol Empire
Year 1260
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Diameter 14 mm
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Obverse script Arabic
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Kublai Khan's early coinage from around 1260 coincides with the moment he seized the Great Khanate in open defiance of the kurultai process, sparking a civil war against his brother Ariq Böke that would consume four years. These small bronzes circulated across a monetary system in profound transition — Kublai was simultaneously pushing paper currency (jiaochao) as the dominant medium, making issues like this one peripheral almost from inception.

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