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Abbasi - Mehdiqoli Khan Javanshir
| Issuer | Karabakh Khanate |
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| Year | 1806-1813 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Central field bearing a three-line Arabic inscription indicating the mint and date, within a plain border. The uppermost line reads 'Zarb Shusha' (struck in Shusha), denoting the mint city of the Karabakh Khanate, followed by the Hijri regnal year. A pious invocation 'Ya Allah' appears in the lower portion of the field. The lettering is executed in a rough but legible hand-struck Persian naskh style, consistent with provincial Caucasian hammered coinage of the period. |
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The Karabakh Khanate's silver issues of this period exist against a backdrop of acute political instability. Mehdiqoli Khan Javanshir ruled under Russian suzerainty following the Treaty of Kurekchay in 1805, which subordinated the khanate to the Russian Empire. Coins struck in his name during 1806–1813 occupy an awkward transitional moment — nominally the output of an autonomous Caucasian ruler, functionally issued under imperial oversight.
The khanate was formally abolished in 1822, making this abbasi among the final generations of indigenous coinage from Karabakh.