Regretfully we have no more of these issues in stock, We are leaving this section for reference, as the Webmaster liked the descriptions and images presented here. And he also sort of admires the practicality of Khan. Truly this was a man who understood Foreign policy!
Genghis Khan
This is a VF Billon Dirhem (Sourdel 594v) struck between 1206-1227 AD in the name of Genghis Khan.
From the age of thirteen he began to weld the Mongol tribes into one, and terror was his instrument. Will Durant tells us that he had prisoners nailed to a wooden ass, or chopped to pieces, or boiled in cauldrons, or flayed alive. When he rec'd a letter from the Chinese Emperor Ning Tsung demanding his submission, he spat in the direction of the Dragon Throne and began at once his march across 1200 miles of the Gobi desert to the western provinces of China. Ninety cities were so completely destroyed that horsemen could ride over the devastated areas in the dark without stumbling. For five years the "Emperor of Mankind" laid north China waste. Then, frightened by an unfavorable conjunction of planets, he turned back towards his native village, and died of illness on the way...
GENGHIS Khan Two AE Jital's. Struck c. 1221AD.
A silver Multiple Dirhem, 47 mm/diameter.Somanid-Ghaznovid (North Afghanistan) 999-1030 A.D., Mahmud. Mitchner 765.
TAMERLANE
This is a silver Tanka, 27mm/dia, struck in the name of Timur-i-lang betw 1390 -1400AD. (Mahmud Chagatai, Astarabad mint.)
The excesses of the Sultans in Delhi, lost them the support of the Hindu population and of their Moslem followers. When fresh invasions came from the north, these Sultans were defeated with the same ease with which they themselves had won India. The first conqueror was Tamerlane... a Turk who had accepted Islam as an admirable weapon, and had given himself a pedigree going back to Genghis Khan, in order to win the support of his
Mongol horde. After gaining the throne of Samarkand, he moved to conquer India, crossing the Indus. He massacred or enslaved such of the inhabitants as could not flee from him, defeated the forces of Sultan Mahmud Tughlak, occupied Delhi, slew a hundred thousand prisoners in cold blood, plundered the city of all the wealth that the Afghan dynasty had gathered there, and carried it off to Samarkand with a multitude of women and slaves, leaving anarchy, famine and pestilence in his wake...
Some related links...
The Royal British Columbia Museum
Empires Beyond the Great Wall- The Heritage of Genghis Khan
The National Geographic Society
Land of Genghis Khan
An article on the Silk Road
Forbes- Genghis Khan
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