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1/4 Mohur - Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar
| Issuer | Iran |
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| Year | 1785 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Hammered gold reverse featuring a multi-line Persian inscription in Nasta'liq script disposed across the central field, recording the mint name Mazandaran and the AH regnal date 1199. The legend is enclosed within a partial inner border composed of raised pellets, with further pellet ornaments scattered throughout the field. The overall execution is typical of late eighteenth-century Iranian hammered gold, with characteristic planchet irregularities at the rim. |
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Agha Mohammad Khan founded the Qajar dynasty after decades of brutal civil war following the collapse of Nader Shah's empire, finally unifying Iran under his control in 1794-95 — but coinage issued under his name begins earlier, as regional authority was asserted piecemeal. He was castrated as a boy by his Afsharid captors, a fact that shaped his notoriously ruthless consolidation of power. His reign ended with his assassination by his own servants in 1797, making any coinage attributable to his authority relatively short-lived and historically charged.