The Fourteenth-Century City at the Samara Bend according to Numismatic Sources

• Main Author: A.V. Pachkalov
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: State Institution «Sh.Marjani Institute of History of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences» 2018-12-01
• Series: Zolotoordynskoe Obozrenie
• Online Access: http://goldhorde.ru/en/stati2018-4-3/
• ISSN: 2308-152X; 2313-6197

Research objectives: The study of coin circulation in the Muran settlement (Samar region) during the Golden Horde period. Research materials: All the known coin finds from the Muran settlement. These finds are discussed in the context of earlier finds in this region (the excavations by V.N. Polevanov, A.E. Alikhova and others Russian researchers). The novelty of the research is represented by information about new unpublished coin finds from the Muran settlement. The results of research allow us to date the coin circulation of the Muran settlement from the second half of the thirteenth century to the 1360s. Besides Golden Horde coins, two ancient Greek coins were found at the Muran settlement. The distribution of coin finds is similar to the distribution of settlements of the Lower Volga region (mainly the Lower Volga mints of Saray, Saray al-Jadid and Gulistan). Most of the coins (more than half of the finds) date to the reigns of Uzbek Khan and Janibek Khan (1340–1350s). The Muran settlement was abandoned during the civil war in the early part of the 1360s. Coins dating from later than the beginning of the 1360s are absent at the Muran settlement. Probably, the Golden Horde coins from the Numismatic Department of National Lib­rary in Paris were found at the Muran settlement in the end of the nineteenth century.