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Beshlik - Selim III Giray Second reign
| Issuer | Khanate of Crimea |
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| Year | 1771 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | The dynastic tamgha of the Giray dynasty occupies the upper portion of the field, serving as the principal heraldic device of Crimean Khanate coinage. Below the tamgha, Arabic-script legends identify the mint and record the regnal year in the Islamic Hijri calendar (AH 1184). The inscription is arranged in horizontal lines across the irregular, roughly textured flan, with characteristic hammered relief and partial peripheral truncation consistent with this denomination and period. |
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| Reverse lettering | ١١٨٤ |
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Selim III Giray's second reign over Crimea, beginning in 1770, coincided directly with the Russo-Turkish War of that decade and the Ottoman Empire's increasingly desperate effort to hold the peninsula against Russian encroachment. This coin circulated during the precise years when Catherine the Great's forces were systematically dismantling Tatar political autonomy — a process that would culminate in the Russian annexation of 1783.
At under a gram of silver, the beshlik was a fractional workhorse denomination, and survivors in any grade above heavily worn are scarce.