Coin: Georgia, Mongol Empire, silver dirhem struck during the reign of Ilkhan Arghun

Coin struck during the reign of Ilkhan Arghun, 1284–1291
Silver dirhem, c. 1284–1288 (683-686 AH)
Mint: Tiflis, Gurjistan, Georgia in Caucasia
Yale Collection.

Obverse: Inscription: Kaghanu, nere-ber, Arghun-u, deledgegülügsen, Arghun, translated line by line as “Of the Khaqan, In the name, By Arghun, Struck, Arghun” or “Struck in the name of the Khan, Arghun” (four-lines in Uighur- Mongol script and language); and “Arghun ” (fifth line: the name Arghun repeated in Arabic script)

Reverse: Inscription within square: Christian pious formula, cross and ornamental motif, with date inscribed outside the square: bism al-ab wa’l-ibn wa’l-ruh al-quds, al-ilah al-wahid, translated as “In the name of the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit—the One God” (Arabic language)

David M. Lang: Studies in the numismatic history of Georgia in Transcaucasia. (Numismatic Notes and Monographs, No. 130.) x, 138 pp. XV plates, maps. New York, American Numismatic Society, 1955, p. 47, Plate V, 10-11.