Uljaytu (r. 703-716 AH/1304-1316)
10 dinars or - Madinat al-salam Baghdad (‘Iraq) 716 AH/1316-17
Inédit - Semble unique.

Av:
Dans le cercle extérieur:
Allahumma ?allà ‘alà Mu?ammad al-mus?afà wa-‘Ali al-murta?à wa-l-?asan al-ra?i wa-l-?usayn al-shahid...
wa-Mu?ammad wa-Ja‘far al-?adiq wa-Musà al-ka?im wa-‘Ali al-hadi wa- al-‘askari wa-Mu?ammad khallada...

Dans le polylobe central:
?allà Allah / la ilah illa Allah / al-malik al-?aqq al-mubin / Mu?ammad rasul Allah / al-?adiq al-wa‘d al-amin / ‘Ali wali Allah / ?allà Allah ‘alayhi

Rv:
Dans le cercle extérieur:
Qur. Al-tawba, v. 112:

Dans le cercle central:
?uriba / bi-madinat al-salam / Baghdad / sanat sitt / ‘ashr wa / sab‘imi’a

Dans le polylobe central:
?uriba fi / dawlat al-mawlà al-sul?an / al-a‘?am malik riqab / al-imam ghayath al-dunya wa-l-din / Ulujaytu sul?an Mu?ammad / khallada Allah mulkahu

42.43g.

Presentation coin - Exceptionally heavy gold piece struck in Baghdad with shi’a legends. Ulujaytu’s type C gold medaillons were possibly given at the occasion of special ceremonies at the court as it has been suggested for other ‘lighter’, and yet relatively big issues of type B weighing of 16.67g.
(see Baldwin’s Islamic coin auction 19, 25 April 2012, lot 141).

The Ilkhanid dynasty was a Mongol dynasty ruling in Persia, up to the western edge of the Euphrates valley, in the 7th and 8th centuries AH/AD 13th-14th. The name of the dynasty indicates that they were dependent on the Great Khan (in Peking, China). Ghazan Khan (694-703 AH/AD 1295-1304) issued an edict ordering the standardization of the coinage in weight, fineness and type, and his standard double-dinar became the basis of Iran’s monetary system for the 8th/14th century. Some changes in the design, in the legends, as well as in the standard weight of the Ilkhanid coins occasionally occurred. Uljaytu’s first coins are similar to those of Ghazan Khan, but he replaced the Uighur legends with a combination of titles in Arabic according to the Islamic tradition: he converted from Sunni to Shi’a Islam, which explains the change of the legends.