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Beshlik - Maqsud Giray
| Issuer | Khanate of Crimea |
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| Year | 1768 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Arabic legends occupying the field, bearing the name and titles of the ruling Khan Maqsud Giray. The inscription is struck on an irregular flan typical of hammered billon coinage of the Crimean Khanate. The surface shows characteristic die-struck lettering with moderate relief, the legends arranged in horizontal lines across the coin's face. |
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| Reverse description | Central field features the dynastic tamgha (trident-form dynastic symbol) of the Giray dynasty, surrounded by the mint name inscription. The regnal year AH 1181 (1768 CE) appears in Arabic numerals below the tamgha. The design is struck on a roughly circular, irregular flan characteristic of hammered Crimean Khanate coinage, with legends disposed around the central device. |
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Maqsud Giray's reign was short and turbulent — he ruled twice, and this issue dates to his second tenure, which unfolded against the backdrop of the Russo-Turkish War that broke out in 1768. The Khanate's billon coinage of this period reflects chronic silver depletion; the base alloy was no accident of minting but a deliberate response to decades of fiscal strain under Ottoman suzerainty.
Within five years of this striking, the 1774 Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca would sever the Khanate's formal ties to the Porte, setting in motion the political dissolution that ended with Russian annexation in 1783.