6 Dirhams - "Ilkhan" Taghay Timur Jurjan mint

6 Dirhams - "Ilkhan" Taghay Timur (Jurjan mint) - obverse6 Dirhams - "Ilkhan" Taghay Timur (Jurjan mint) - reverse

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Features

Issuer Ilkhanates of Western Khorasan
Khan Togha Temür (1336-1353)
Type Standard circulation coin
Year 742 (1342)
Calendar Islamic (Hijri)
Value AR 6 Dirhams
Currency Dinar (1256-1388)
Composition Silver
Weight 4.32 g
Diameter 24.5 mm
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered
Orientation Coin alignment ↑↓
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
141178
References A# 2245
Stephen Album; 2011. A Checklist of Islamic Coins (3rd edition). Self-published, Santa Rosa, California, United States.

Obverse

Honorary title and name of the leader in a quadrilobe; a ring attached to the outside of each lobe separating in four a legend composed of the name of the workshop followed by the date in full.

Lettering:
في ابل
ضرب
السلطان العلم العدل
طغايتيمور جان جلد
ملكه

في استرباد سبعمائة اربعين اثنان سنة

Translation:
In the beating
The Sultan is the flag of justice
Togo Taymour Khan skinned
Queen

In Strathbad seven hundred and forty two years

Reverse

Joined on three lines, the first kalima of Islam, framed by the names of the first four caliphs (beginning at 12 o'clock, then reading in the clockwise direction for the following ones).

Lettering:
ﻻ ﺍﻟﻪ ﺍﻻ ﺍﻟﻠﻪ
ﻣﺤﻤﺪ
ﺭﺳﻮﻝ ﺍﻟﻠﻪ

إبو بكير | عمر | عثمان | علي

Translation:
There is no God but God
Mohammed
The Messenger of Allah

Abu Bakir Omar Othman Ali

Comments

In 1338, Togha Temür briefly pretended to the ilkhan throne as a descendant of Genghis Khan's brother.
Initially supported by Hassan Buzurg, he will lose the favor of the latter by falling into a trap set by the chupanid Hasan Kutchek: the latter promised him the hand of Sati Beg in exchange for an alliance against Hasan Buzurg. To do this, he asked Togha Temür to write him a letter in which he promised to help him if needed; letter which he hastened to transmit to Hassan Buzurg.
This incident made him lose his il-khan title. He will still continue to rule in Khorasan and Mazandaran.

In 1353, he will be assassinated by the Sarbadars near Astarabad, the former name of the city of Gorgan in present-day Iran.

The obverse is written in Naskh and the reverse in Kufic.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
742 (1342) 

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