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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 5441504, member: 99456&quot;]Thanks for the comment - I am curious to know if there is any evidence of minting with &quot;fixed date&quot;, or if these were only circulating and reauthorized.</p><p><br /></p><p>An excellent thread - I will add one more dirham which I found interesting for the link to the ruler, Jani Beg (son of Öz Beg/Uzbek), and the year of his siege of Genoese city of Caffa (today: Feodosija, Ukraine) in AD 1343 and the spread of the Black plague to Europe.&nbsp; An account from Gabriele De Mussi (written circa AD 1348/9) describes the the Tartar&#039;s use of dead bodies as a weapon and the spread of disease - an interesting article <a href="https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/8/9/01-0536_article" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/8/9/01-0536_article" rel="nofollow">here at cdc.gov</a> and an excellent post from [USER=74712]@FitzNigel[/USER], <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/medieval-caffa-and-the-black-death.282461/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/medieval-caffa-and-the-black-death.282461/">Medieval - Caffa and the Black Death</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1236690[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1236691[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Golden Horde, Jani Beg</b>, 1341-1357, AR dirham (1.54g), struck only at Saray al-Jadida (“New Saray”), AH743 (AD 1342/3), ruler&#039;s name in Uighur together with his titles in Arabic</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Sultan, the Just, Jani Beg, Jalal al-din Mahmud</p><p>خلد الله ملكه [...] السلطان العادل</p><p><b>Rev:</b> minted in Saray al-Jadida 743</p><p>ضرب سراي الجديد في سنة ٧۴۳</p><p><b>Ref:</b> Sagdeeva 217, Album A-2027[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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