Manghir - Shahin Giray

Shahin Giray was the last khan of Crimea, installed in 1777 with direct Russian backing after Catherine II engineered the removal of his predecessor. His reign was turbulent from the start — Crimean nobles and Ottoman sympathizers revolted repeatedly against a ruler they viewed as a Russian puppet. This manghir was struck in his first year of power, during a period when his actual authority over the peninsula was still being contested by force.

Russia formally annexed Crimea in 1783. Shahin Giray abdicated under Russian pressure and was eventually exiled to the Ottoman Empire, where he was executed in 1787.