Numismatica Genevensis SA
Auction 7 27-28 November 2012
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Ilkhans. Reine Sati Beg, AH 739. Dinar AH 739, Bagdad. Inscription sur trois lignes dans un polylobe / Inscription sur quatre lignes dans un cercle perlé inscrit dans un quadrilobe. 2,16g. Album K2231; Diler - (cf SA722).
Très bel exemplaire.
Abu-Sa’id mourut jeune, à l’âge 32 ans, en AH 736. En l’absence d’héritier mâle, les nobles Mongols de sa cour choisirent la soeur d’Abu-Sa’id, Sati beg Khatun, la veuve de Choban, grand-père d’Hasan Kuchak. Sati Beg fut proclamée reine à Arran par Hasan Kuchak et des monnaies furent émises à son nom. Son règne de neuf mois est totalement exceptionnel et ses monnaies constituent une rareté insigne dans le monnayage islamique.
When Abu-Sa’id died at the early age of thirty-two in 736 h. he left no designated heir as he had no children of his own. The powerful nobles cast about for a suitable Mongol successor, and after three males quickly passed from the scene they turned to Abu-Sa’id’s sister, Sati Beg Khatun, the widow of Hasan Kuchak’s grandfather Choban. Sati Beg was proclaimed ruler in Arran by Hasan Kuchak, and coinage such as this previously unrecorded piece from Baghdad was struck in her name during her
nine-month reign, which was brought to an end when it was judged inappropriate for a woman to occupy the throne.
Très bel exemplaire.
Abu-Sa’id mourut jeune, à l’âge 32 ans, en AH 736. En l’absence d’héritier mâle, les nobles Mongols de sa cour choisirent la soeur d’Abu-Sa’id, Sati beg Khatun, la veuve de Choban, grand-père d’Hasan Kuchak. Sati Beg fut proclamée reine à Arran par Hasan Kuchak et des monnaies furent émises à son nom. Son règne de neuf mois est totalement exceptionnel et ses monnaies constituent une rareté insigne dans le monnayage islamique.
When Abu-Sa’id died at the early age of thirty-two in 736 h. he left no designated heir as he had no children of his own. The powerful nobles cast about for a suitable Mongol successor, and after three males quickly passed from the scene they turned to Abu-Sa’id’s sister, Sati Beg Khatun, the widow of Hasan Kuchak’s grandfather Choban. Sati Beg was proclaimed ruler in Arran by Hasan Kuchak, and coinage such as this previously unrecorded piece from Baghdad was struck in her name during her
nine-month reign, which was brought to an end when it was judged inappropriate for a woman to occupy the throne.