QARA QOYUNLU

809 – 874 AH

For tankas of the period of Qara Yusuf and Iskandar, Tabriz is by far the most common mint, though Bidlis is only modestly scarce for type #2478. Some issues of Urmi (i.e., Urmiya) and Maragha are not especially rare. The ⅓ tanka was minted primarily at Mawsil, ‘Imadiya, and Baghdad, none of them common.