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Akce - Bahadur Giray Bakhchysarai mint
| Issuer | Khanate of Crimea |
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| Year | 1637-1641 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Central device features the dynastic tamgha of the Giray dynasty — a trident-like heraldic symbol — prominently placed in the center of the field. The regnal date appears in Arabic numerals below the tamgha. The flan is irregular and the strike is typical of hammered provincial coinage, with flat areas and weak peripheral detail. |
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Bahadur Giray ruled the Crimean Khanate from 1637 to 1641 under considerable Ottoman pressure — the Sublime Porte had direct influence over succession, and khans who displeased Istanbul were deposed without ceremony. The Bakhchysarai mint, operating from the capital of the khanate, produced these small silver akçe as the primary fractional currency of a state that functioned simultaneously as an Ottoman vassal and an independent military power extracting tribute from Polish-Lithuanian and Muscovite territories.