Tamani, the former ancient Greek colony of Phanagoria, at the excavations first found the coin last Crimean Khan Shahin Giray. This was reported by the press service of the Institute of archeology.
the Coin of the Crimean khanate – beslic – released in the third year of the reign of Shahin Giray. On the obverse the inscription “Khan Shahin Giray”, on the back – “Minted in Bakhchisarai 1191” (according to the Gregorian calendar 1779). The coins of this period are a group of rare finds, reminiscent of the history of the occurrence at the end of the century the Crimea and the Kuban region in the Russian Empire. The head of the Phanagorian archaeological expedition of the RAS Vladimir Kuznetsov said that Eastern coins, including the Crimean and the Ottoman eighteenth century, constitute a very small group of numismatic materials Phanagoria.
– If in the Crimea, Bakhchisarai bashlyki Shahin Giray third year of the reign included in numerous category of coins on the Taman Peninsula, they are less common, and in Phanagoria – the first was discovery, the scientists explained.
According to him, some time after the annexation of Crimea to the Russian Empire Shahin Giray lived in Taman.
– Thus, on the Taman land coin şahin Giray was not accidental, – said Kuznetsov. – His soldiers went to the Kuban in ancient Fanagoria road with Fanagoria regiment Suvorov. Apparently, one of them dropped bashlyk with the name of Khan, after 237 years inherited archaeologists.
şahin Giray was the last Crimean Khan. He tried to hold in the Crimea, the reform on the Russian model, including coin-operated. Without changing the names of coins, Khan has increased the amount of silver in baslica, which at that time was a small coin with a high content of copper. In Kaffa (Feodosiya) then built a new mint, which was organized by machine-mint coins of large denominations. A Pro-Russian policy of Shahin Giray provoked resistance at the top of the Nogai nobility and led to unrest in the Kuban Horde. In 1782 Nogai was invited as the brother of Khan Shahin Giray, who lived in the Kuban. Himself şahin Giray fled from Bakhchisarai to Kafa (Feodosia), and then to Kerch under the protection of the Russian garrison.
From the Kuban anti-Russian revolt spread to the Crimea. The rebels plundered the Khan’s Palace in Bakhchisaray and killed about a thousand of Russian. Shahin Giray asked for help from the Russian Empire, and the new Khan from the Ottoman. The Russian Empress Catherine II entrusted Prince Grigory Potemkin to crush the rebellion in the Crimean khanate and achieve its accession to Russia. In April 1783 leader issued a Manifesto on the incorporation of the Crimean khanate to Russia.
Later, şahin Giray moved to Taganrog. Then the last Crimean Khan lived in Taman, in the Voronezh and Kaluga. In 1787, şahin GI��ay emigrated to the Ottoman Empire, where he was executed on the orders of the Sultan.
