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1/4 Toman - Agha Mohammad Khan Ya Aziz
| Issuer | Iran |
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| Year | 1193-1211 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large cartouche executed in deeply incised nastaliq script, enclosed within a lobed or cloud-collar frame with ornamental floral and vegetal scrollwork visible at the lower portion of the field. The central legend prominently features the invocation 'Ya Aziz' together with the mint name and epithet. Below the cartouche, a decorative foliate or arabesque border element frames the lower field. The overall composition is characteristic of the hammered gold coinage produced at Rasht under Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar. Dot ornaments punctuate the script forms, adding rhythmic decorative texture to the inscription. |
| Reverse script | Persian (nastaliq) |
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Agha Mohammad Khan founded the Qajar dynasty after a campaign of extraordinary brutality, most notoriously the 1794 sack of Kerman, where he ordered the blinding of some 20,000 inhabitants in retaliation for the city's support of his Zand rivals. He was castrated as a child by the Zands — a deliberate act to eliminate him as a dynastic threat — which makes the coinage struck in his name carry an unusual historical irony: monetary authority projected by a man his enemies had tried to render politically irrelevant.
He was assassinated by his own servants in 1797, cutting the reign short. Issues from his earliest regnal years, before the mint infrastructure of the Zand period was fully absorbed into Qajar production, show inconsistencies in flan preparation that later emissions largely resolved.