Dirham 'Dang' - Khizr Azaq mint

Khizr Khan's reign over the Golden Horde lasted barely two years before he was murdered in 1361, one casualty in the violent succession crisis that would fracture the khanate into what Russian sources call the "Great Troubles" — a twenty-year period of civil war during which over two dozen khans cycled through power. Azaq, the port city at the mouth of the Don known to Europeans as Tana, was a commercial hub heavily trafficked by Venetian and Genoese merchants, which kept its mint active even as political authority collapsed around it.

The Zeno catalogue reference places this piece within a small documented group; Azaq-mint issues from Khizr's reign are not common given how briefly he held nominal control over the western steppe.