Coins of the Sheki Khanate with the Russian Imperial crown

Coins of the Sheki Khanate with the Russian Imperial crown Coins of the Sheki Khanate with the Russian Imperial crown https://innews.media/en/news/id-37890

The exhibition and lecture dedicated to the coins of the Sheki Khanate with the crown of the Russian Empire was held in the Russian house in Baku on October 30 at 19:00.

Visitors were presented with an exhibition of original unique silver and copper coins of the Sheki Khanate of the late 18th - early 19th centuries.

Researcher Rustam Huseynov spoke in detail about the historical events that led to the emergence of this money, its varieties and the most interesting numismatic samples.

The Sheki Khanate is a historical state that existed in the middle of the 18th - early 19th centuries in the northwest of Azerbaijan. Coins of the Sheki Khanate, especially transitional types with crowns, can tell a lot about important details of the history of Azerbaijan and relations with Russia, shed light on the pages of not only political but also economic history of the late 18th - early 19th centuries. Some varieties of coins of the Sheki Khanate are known in extremely limited quantities and are a numismatic rarity.