ISLAMIC, Mongols. Golden Horde. Jani Beg (Jambek), AH 743-758 / AD 1342-1357. Dinar (Silver, 19 mm, 2.67 g, 7 h), Baghdad, struck under the Jalayrid ruler Shaykh Uways, AH 758 / AD 1357. Within a circle, ‘lā ilāha illā Allāh / ḍarb / Muḥammad / Baghdād / rasūl Allāh’ (‘There is no deity but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Struck in Baghdad’ in Arabic); names of the four Rashidun Caliphs around. Rev. ‘al-sulṭān al-aʿẓam / Jānī Bik Khān / khallada Allāh mulkahū’ (‘The supreme sultan, Jani Beg Khan. May Allah perpetuate his kingdom’ in Arabic); around, ‘fī sana – thamān – wa khamsīn – wa sabʿa miʾa’ (‘In the year 758’ in Arabic). Album 2028. Very rare. Areas of weakness and with some porosity and scratches, otherwise, very fine.

From the collection of Dr. D. Löer, ex Heritage Europe 54, 22 May 2017, 6440 and Album 20, 18 September 2014, 623.