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Beshlik - Dawlat II Giray Bakhchysarai Mint
| Issuer | Khanate of Crimea |
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| Year | 1709 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#17 |
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| Obverse lettering | سلطان دولت كراى خان بن سليم كراى خان |
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| Edge | Rough |
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Dawlat II Giray's reign was turbulent even by Crimean Khan standards — he was installed, deposed, and reinstated multiple times at Ottoman discretion, the Porte treating the khanate's throne as a political lever throughout the Great Northern War period. This coin was struck the same year Charles XII of Sweden, freshly defeated at Poltava, fled south seeking Crimean-Ottoman support against Peter the Great. Whether Bakhchysarai's mint output that year reflected the military mobilization pressure on the khanate's economy is unrecorded, but the timing is notable.