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1 Abbasi - Ashraf Hotaki Isfahan
| Issuer | Hotak dynasty (Iranian States) |
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| Year | 1728 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse script | Persian (nastaliq) |
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| Reverse lettering | جلوس میمنت مانوس در دارالسلطنه اصفهان ۱۱۳۷ (Translation: A blessed gathering in the royal city of Isfahan 1137) |
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Ashraf Hotaki seized Isfahan after defeating the Safavid Shah Tahmasp II's forces, and his brief reign — ending in 1729 when Nader Qoli (later Nader Shah) crushed the Afghan occupiers — produced a small and historically compressed coinage. The Hotak dynasty never fully controlled Iranian minting infrastructure, and surviving silver from this period is genuinely scarce rather than artificially so.
Album 2721 covers a politically unstable mint operating under Afghan rulers who were themselves under mounting military pressure from the east.