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Para - Selim I Giray
| Issuer | Khanate of Crimea |
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| Year | 1684-1691 |
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| Currency | Beshilik |
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| Obverse lettering | سليم كراى |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Selim I Giray ruled the Khanate of Crimea four separate times — an unprecedented record among the Giray dynasty — and this issue falls within his second reign, a period of intense military entanglement with the Ottoman campaigns against the Holy League following the failed siege of Vienna in 1683. The Khanate's finances were perpetually strained by the demands of serving as the Ottoman frontier cavalry reserve, and small silver fractions like this para were the workhorses of local bazaar commerce in Bakhchisaray.