KRIM
    Descendants of the Mongols ruled the Crimean peninsula as an Islamic sultanate from the 15th to the 18th centuries.  The last of these sultans made some very large copper coins.

255-227. RUSSIA, KRIM, Shahin Girei, 1777-83, copper kyrmis, K34, 1191 AH year 4 (1780), crude F-F+ $335.00 10/2/2007 sold $300.00
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