Description
Ischal (30 Akce) AH 1191/6 (1783) Khanate of Crimea under Russian protectorate, KM#82, Khan Shahin(Şahin) Giray(During his 6th year of reign) was the last Khan of Crimea on two occasions (1777–1782, 1782–1783).
Graded by NGC XF 45.
77.25 grams(Recorded before slabbing)
The dissolution of the Giray dynasty took place in 1783 in Crimea.
In 1776, Şahin Giray succeeded his uncle to become Khan of Crimea. During his brief reign, he embarked on a program to re-build and modernise the Crimean Khanate. These reforms centred on the economy and government infrastructure, but included opening factories and moving the capital from Bakhchisaray to the important trade city of Caffa. Eventually, under enormous pressure from Russia and facing the inevitability of defeat, he agreed to a Russian offer to incorporate the Khanate into the Russian Empire. As a result, he was compelled to move to Saint Petersburg, where he lived under house arrest. He appealed to be allowed to move to Edirne, where he had spent much of his childhood. In 1787, Russia and the Ottoman Empire agreed to allow him to move to Edirne. This move was not the retirement he was expecting because the Ottoman authorities saw him as a possible challenger to the imperial Ottoman throne. He was moved under arrest to Constantinople and then Rhodes where he was executed later that year under the order of the Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid I.
-Taken from Wikipedia.
The Crimean Khanate was a Turkic state of the Ottoman Empire from 1441 to 1783, the longest-lived of the Turkic khanates that succeeded the empire of the Golden Horde of Mongol origin. Established by Hacı I Giray in 1441, the Crimean khans were the patrilineal descendants of Toqa Temür, thirteenth son of Jochi and grandson of Genghis Khan through marriage. Ottoman forces under Gedik Ahmet Pasha conquered all of the Crimean peninsula and joined it to the khanate in 1475. In 1774, it was released as a sovereign political entity, following the Russo-Turkish Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca, and formally annexed by the Russian Empire in 1783, becoming the Taurida Governorate. The khanate was located in present-day Russia, Ukraine, Romania and Moldova. In 1475, the Ottomans imprisoned Meñli I Giray for three years for resisting the invasion. After returning from captivity in Constantinople, he accepted the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire. Nevertheless, Ottoman sultans treated the khans more as allies than subjects. The khans continued to have a foreign policy independent from the Ottomans in the steppes of Little Tartary. The khans continued to mint coins and use their names in Friday prayers, two important signs of sovereignty. Their coinage was similar to the Golden Horde akce, that’s because the Crimean Tatars thought of their khanate as a direct descendant of the Golden Horde.
-Taken from Numista.
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