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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 25458245, member: 81887&quot;][ATTACH=full]1629527[/ATTACH] </p><p>Chinghizids (Great Mongols). AE jital (20 mm).&nbsp; Shafurqan mint.&nbsp; Time of Chinghiz Khan (1206-1227).&nbsp; Obverse: Kalima in 3 lines &quot;la ilah illa/ Allah Muhammad/ rasul Allah&quot; (There is no god but God, Muhammad is the prophet of God)/ legend in 3 lines within lobed square &quot;al-Nasir/ ud-Din Allah/ amir al-mu&#039;minin&quot; (al-Nasir ud-Din Allah, Commander of the Faithful [Caliph]), partial legend around edge including mint name of Shafurqan.&nbsp; Album A1972, Tye 325.&nbsp; This coin: Stephen Album Internet Auction 26, lot 349 (April 2024).</p><p><br /></p><p>The life and legend of Chinghiz (also spelled Genghis) Khan is too well known to bear repeating here.&nbsp; Instead, I&#039;ll focus on the actual coin.&nbsp; Nearly all coins of Chinghiz Khan do not bear his name.&nbsp; Some refer simply to &quot;the khan&quot;, while others, like this type, make no mention of the Khan or Mongols at all.&nbsp; Instead, the only ruler cited here is the Abbasid Caliph al-Nasir (reigned 1180- 1225).&nbsp; Thus, this coin is attributed to Chinghiz only indirectly, as he is known to have conquered the city of Shafurqan (in northern Afghanistan) during the time of Caliph al-Nasir, and slightly earlier coins of the city cite the Khwarezmshah ruler &#039;Ala ud-Din Muhammad, who lost to Chinghiz in 1220, so the coin was probably not minted prior to Chinghiz&#039; conquest.&nbsp; Coins of Chinghiz closely follow existing local types of the conquered lands, which in the Muslim areas meant including the kalima (Muslim declaration of faith) and often citing the Caliph.&nbsp; This coin is listed in Tye as being billon, but Album refers to it as AE; if there is any silver in the alloy of this specimen, it is well-hidden.&nbsp; Please post your coins of Chinghiz Khan, or whatever else is related.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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