Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Para - Shahin Giray
| Issuer | Khanate of Crimea |
|---|---|
| Year | 1777 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Reverse displays a prominent tughra (royal monogram) of Khan Shahin Giray rendered in the Ottoman calligraphic tradition, centrally placed and occupying the majority of the flan. The tughra's intertwined loops and ascending strokes are characteristic of the Girays' dynastic cipher, with subsidiary script elements visible at the base. The irregular flan edges and flat, worn relief are consistent with hammered billon coinage of the late Crimean Khanate period. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | 1191 (1777) - 1191//1 - 1191 (1777) - 1191//2 - 1191 (1777) - 1191//3 - |
| Additional information |
Shahin Giray was the last Khan of Crimea, installed by Catherine II in 1777 as a nominally independent ruler following Russian military pressure that forced his predecessor Devlet IV Giray from power. The arrangement satisfied nobody — the Ottomans refused to recognize him, and his own subjects revolted repeatedly against his Westernizing reforms and Russian alignment. Coinage issued under his name carried the formal trappings of Crimean sovereignty while the political reality was already collapsing around him.
He abdicated in 1783 when Catherine simply annexed the Khanate outright, ending over three centuries of Giray dynasty rule.