½ Qiran - Nasir al-Din Shah Type B - Shiraz

Nasir al-Din Shah's long reign produced a notoriously inconsistent provincial coinage, with mints at Shiraz, Tehran, Tabriz, and elsewhere operating under varying degrees of central oversight. The Shiraz mint, drawing on Fars province's administrative infrastructure, struck this type across a wide date range — the span itself reflecting the shah's gradual, incomplete monetary reform efforts rather than continuous uninterrupted production. His 1873 and 1878 trips to Europe, the first Iranian monarch to make such journeys, generated pressure to modernize the currency, but provincial habits died slowly.