CRIMEAN KHANATE SILVER DANG_____15th Century AD_____DESCENDENTS OF GHENGIS KHAN

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A BEAUTIFUL SILVER DANG OF THE CRIMEAN KHANATE (UNDER HACI GIRAY & SON MENLI GIRAY) FROM 1449 - 1515 AD .
The Crimean khans were the patrilineal descendants of Toqa Temür, thirteenth son of Jochi and grandson of Genghis Khan through marriage.
In 1502, Meñli I Giray defeated the last khan of the Great Horde, which put an end to the Horde's claims on Crimea.
These silver coins tend to be weakly struck and are seldom centered.
From the estate of a collector in Poland
THE SIZE IS 14.1 MM AND 0.66 GRAMS.
OBVERSE – Giray Thamga; inscription around
REVERSE – Inscription
The Crimean Khanate was a Turkic state of the Ottoman Empire from 1478 to 1774, the longest-lived of the Turkic khanates that succeeded the empire of the Golden Horde of Mongol origin. Established by Haci I Giray in 1449, the Crimean khans were the patrilineal descendants of Toqa Temür, thirteenth son of Jochi and grandson of Genghis Khanthrough marriage; Temür married one of Genghis Khan's granddaughters. The khanate was located in present-day Russia and Ukraine.
The Crimean Khanate originated in the early 15th century when certain clans of the Golden Horde Empire ceased their nomadic life and decided to make Crimea their yurt (homeland). The local separatists invited a Genghisid contender for the Golden Horde throne, Haci Giray, to become their khan. Haci Giray accepted their invitation and traveled from exile in Lithuania. He warred for independence against the Horde from 1420 to 1441, in the end achieving success. But Haci Giray then had to fight off internal rivals before he could ascend the throne of the khanate in 1449.
The sons of Haci I Giray contended against each other to succeed him. The Ottomans intervened and installed one of the sons, Meñli I Giray, on the throne. Menli I Giray, took the imperial title "Sovereign of Two Continents and Khan of Khans of Two Seas." In 1502, Meñli I Giray defeated the last khan of the Great Horde, which put an end to the Horde's claims on Crimea.
For a long time, until the early 18th century, the khanate maintained a massive slave trade with the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East, exporting about 2 million slaves from Russia and Poland-Lithuania over the period 1500–1700. Caffa (city on Crimean peninsula) was one of the best known and significant trading ports and slave markets. In 1769, a last major Tatar raid resulted in the capture of 20,000 Russian and Ruthenian slaves.
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