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Akce - Saadet Giray
| Issuer | Khanate of Crimea |
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| Year | 1523 |
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| Value | 1 Akce = 1/5 Beshlik (0.2) |
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| Obverse description | Islamic religious legend in Arabic script occupying the entire field, struck on a small irregular flan typical of hammered billon coinage. The Shahada is rendered in two lines reading 'There is no god but God / Muhammad is the Messenger of God.' The lettering is crudely but characteristically struck, with individual characters showing the compressed, angular style common to Crimean Khanate akces of the early sixteenth century. The field is flat and unbordered, with the legend filling the available space. Minor striking weakness is visible at the periphery due to the irregular flan shape. |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Saadet Giray I took the Crimean throne in 1523 with direct Ottoman backing, displacing his nephew Mehmed Giray I — who had just led a coalition force deep into Muscovite territory. The political rupture was immediate and violent, and the new khan's first minted issues functioned as much as proclamations of legitimacy as they did as currency.
The billon akçe was the Ottoman monetary unit transplanted into the Crimean system, its form and finesse tied loosely to Istanbul's standards but struck at local workshops with considerably less consistency.