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1/4 Mohur - Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar

Issuer Iran
Year 1785
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Weight 2.71 g
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Reverse lettering ضرب مازندران ۱۱۹۹
(Translation: Mazandaran mint)
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Mint Mazandaran
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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.

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