Beshlik - Dawlat II Giray Bakhchysarai Mint

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.