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Polushka - Shahin Giray
| Issuer | Khanate of Crimea |
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| Year | 1777 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by a three-line Arabic inscription reading 'Khan / Shahin / Giray', identifying the issuing ruler Shahin Giray, last Khan of the Crimea. The legend is rendered in bold naskh-style script and dominates the flan. A partial dotted border encircles the upper portion of the design. The coin was struck on an irregular copper flan characteristic of hammered Crimean issues of this period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Shahin Giray was the last Khan of Crimea, installed by Catherine II in 1777 as a Russian-backed ruler following the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca, which formally detached Crimea from Ottoman suzerainty. His reign was plagued by consecutive revolts — his own subjects viewed him as a Russian puppet — and he abdicated in 1783 when Catherine simply annexed the peninsula outright. This copper polushka, struck in his first year of rule, belongs to a coinage that barely outlasted its issuer's political survival.