Abstract
The paper analyzes dynamics of the weight of Ganja Khānate’s silver coins and their face value. It is shown that despite the reduction of the weight, the main face value of Ganja Khānate’s coinage remained ‘abbāsī. Five standards of the weight of Ganja ‘abbāsī were fetched out. At the beginning of an independent coinage ‘abbāsī, which were struck in 1764–1781, produced almost of the same weight as Iranian ones (I weight standard, ca. 4.50g). In 1768, following the increasing of the number of shāhī in Iranian ‘abbāsī from 4 to 5, in Ganja again were struck 4-shāhī-‘abbāsī weights 3.69g (II weight standard, used in 1768–1774), that was 4/5 of the Iranian standard. The following two standards also refl ected changes of the quantity of shāhīs in Iranian ‘abbāsī. Ganja ‘abbāsī of III weight standard (3.38g, which is the weight of the four shāhī in ‘abbāsī containing 5.5 shāhī) were minted in 1774–1776. Ganja ‘abbāsī of IV weight standard (3.07g, which is the weight of the four shāhī in ‘abbāsi containing 6 shāhīs) were minted in 1774–1781. During this reasearch, the refi nement of the chronology of changes of the quantity of shāhī in Iranian ‘abbāsī in 1774–1775 was done. Ganja coins of the last V weight standard (2.46g, i. e. one shāhī less, or –20% of previous standard weight) minted in probably from 1781 and until 1791, after the start of Qarabagh- Georgian occupation of Ganja. It was found that a change in the type of coins was not correspond with a change of the weight standard in 1768–1792. Under the infl uence of introduced in Persia silver coins of heavy denominations, in Ganja in 1792–1800 were struck 5 ‘abbāsī coins of local types and local weight standards – of V standard in 1792–1798 and of IV standard in 1799– 1800. It has been shown, that their prevoius designation as riyāls was incorrect, and they must be called as minaltun or mihazar (or Ganja rouble) in accordance with report dated by 1840.
Keywords
metrology, silver coins, ‘abbāsī, rouble, Afshārid, Zand, Qājār, Ganja Khanate, Southern Caucasus, Iran
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