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Akce - Hajji Giray I
| Issuer | Khanate of Crimea |
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| Year | 867-1466 |
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| Value | 1 Akce = 1/5 Beshlik (0.2) |
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| Obverse lettering | سلطان الاعظم حاجی کرای خان |
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| Mintage | 867 - - ND (1420-1466) - - |
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Hajji Giray I founded the Crimean Khanate by breaking from the disintegrating Golden Horde around 1441, and his reign — punctuated by near-constant warfare against the rival Great Horde and repeated interventions from Lithuania — produced coinage in conditions of considerable political instability. His akçe issues are catalogued under a relatively wide Retowski range precisely because attributing specific dies to specific campaign years remains difficult; the mint activity shifted with the khan himself.
At 0.7g, these are among the lightest akçe struck in the Black Sea region at this period, reflecting Crimean monetary practice diverging sharply from Ottoman norms before the vassalage formalized under Mengli Giray I after 1475.