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1/2 Shahi - Anonymous NM
| Issuer | Safavid Dynasty |
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| Year | 1522 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Hammered silver flan bearing a three-line Shi'a kalima inscription in thuluth script arranged across the field. The legend reads, in sequence: the shahada ('There is no god but God'), the profession of the Prophet ('Muhammad is the Messenger of God'), and the Shi'a formula ('Ali is the Friend of God'). The script is boldly cut but shows typical die-shift and weak strike in the upper register. The irregular flan edge is characteristic of early Safavid hammered coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Arabic (thuluth) |
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Struck during the reign of Shah Ismail I, the founder of the Safavid dynasty and the man who forcibly converted Iran from Sunni to Twelver Shia Islam — a political and religious rupture whose consequences stretched centuries. The "anonymous" attribution reflects deliberate suppression of the ruler's name on certain issues, a practice tied to legitimacy disputes and shifting theological posturing at the early Safavid mint.
Album 2589 encompasses a range of undated and partially attributed fractions that remain difficult to assign with precision; the absence of a mint name here compounds that challenge.