1/4 Toman - Agha Mohammad Khan Ya Aziz

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.