China, Qing - Xinjiang / Sinkiang AE Pul (7.20gr) 1691-1727 Cewan Rabdan. VF

Grade: VF 

Catalog: Numista-197158

Material: Copper

Weight: 7.20 g

Diameter: 17.80 mm

Teardrop-shaped planchet, ex-private collection, with a handmade coin card.

The Dzungar Khanate was an Inner Asian khanate of Oirat Mongol origin. At its greatest extent, it covered an area from southern Siberia in the north to present-day Kyrgyzstan in the south, and from the Great Wall of China in the east to present-day Kazakhstan in the west. The core of the Dzungar Khanate is today part of northern Xinjiang, also called Dzungaria. In 1755, Qing China took advantage of a Dzungar civil war to conquer Dzungaria and destroyed the Dzungars as a people.