The Khwarezm Shah provoked Ghengis Kahan by plundering merchants under his protection.  Ghengis led an army west, and the Khwarezm Shah fled, telling his cities to look to themselves.  Kurzuwan had a population of about 10,000 or 20,000 people – the leader of the town council called himself King of Kurzuwan and set about arranging a home guard, and these token coins were struck to pay them.  They are dated to the year and the month.  Since the Rabi II coins are about four times as common as the Jumada I, we can guess the city lasted less than 5 weeks after preparations began.  Everyone would have been killed or transported.  Chinese Buddhist missionaries traveling through Afghanistan 20 years later avoided entering the now empty cites.  They report the only the sound from within being the howling of wild dogs.

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