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GIRAY KHANS: Shahin Giray, 1777-1783, BI kara-beshlyk (1.27g), Baghcha-Saray, AH1191 year 4. VF

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GIRAY KHANS: Shahin Giray, 1777-1783, BI kara-beshlyk (1.27g), Baghcha-Saray, AH1191 year 4. VF
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GIRAY KHANS: Shahin Giray, 1777-1783, BI kara-beshlyk (1.27g), Baghcha-Saray, AH1191 year 4, A-2116, Ret-90, with the regnal year "4" on the reverse, to the left, instead of its usual position at the top of the obverse, average strike, VF, RR, ex Dick Nauta Collection, from our pricelist #29, lot 101.

This type has been incorrectly assigned various other names, mostly commonly "para", but in his research, Sariev has concluded that it was called a "kara-beshlyk", which means "black five [para]" and was equivalent to one akçe.

The Giray Khans were the rulers of the Crimean Khanate from 1441 to 1783. The Khanate was also known by following names; Qirim Hanligi, Qirim Yurtu, Great Horde, Desht-i Kipchak, and in old European historiography and geography as Little Tartary or Tartaria Minor. This Crimean Tatar state was the longest-lived of the Turkic khanates that succeeded the empire of the Golden Horde. Established by Haci I Giray in 1441, it was regarded as the direct heir to the Golden Horde and to Desht-i-Kipchak. The Giray Khanate was annexed by Catherine the Great of Russia. On 8 April 1783, in violation of the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca, Catherine II intervened in the civil war, de facto annexing the whole Crimean Peninsula as the Taurida Governorate.