|
GHIYÂTH AL-DíN KAY KHUSRAW III B. QÏLÏCH ARSLAN Ma‘dan Lu’lu’a Mint COINAGE: Only three doubtful half dirhams have been reported for Kay Khusraw but a sprinkling of copper coins, weighing about 2 grams, have survived. Gold dinars were struck at Konya up to 671 and then at Sivas until 676. However, the coinage was essentially one of silver dirhams, although not named as such. Both Konya and Sivas also minted small quantities of silver dinars, clearly named, and with a different obverse design. A fall in the standards of coin production is apparent at all mints with the majority of coins being oval rather than circular, sometimes with quite large cracks in the edge. The only apparent effect on the coinage of the challenge mounted by Mas‘ûd II was at Sivas which dated its coins for Kay Khusraw in months in 678 and 679 while also producing coins for Mas‘ûd in the latter year. Neither Konya nor Lu’lu’a seems to have been in operation at this juncture although Ma‘dan Lu’lu’a continued normally until 682 when it became the only mint for Mas‘ûd. (Broome). |
|||
|
 |
||