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1 Abbasi - Husayn Safavi Type D, Raŝt mint
| Issuer | Safavid Dynasty |
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| Year | 1719-1721 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Central field displaying the Shi'a Islamic profession of faith (Kalima) and invocation in four lines of bold Arabic nastaliq calligraphy, reading 'There is no god but God / Muhammad is the Messenger of God / Ali is the Vicegerent of God / O Ali.' The deeply struck legends fill the flan and are separated by horizontal dividing lines, a hallmark of late Safavid hammered silver coinage. A beaded border runs along the coin's periphery, enclosing the religious inscriptions. Decorative dot ornaments punctuate the interlinear spaces. The style reflects the standard Safavid Shi'a epigraphic tradition used throughout the reign of Shah Sultan Husayn. |
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Husayn Shah's final years on the throne were catastrophic. Afghan forces under Mir Mahmud Hotaki besieged Isfahan beginning in 1722, and the Safavid monetary system — already strained by decades of fiscal mismanagement — effectively collapsed with the dynasty. Coins struck at provincial mints like Rasht in the 1719–1721 window represent some of the last orderly issues before that disintegration; within months, the mint's output would be disrupted by the chaos spreading from the Afghan advance.
Rasht, positioned on the Caspian littoral, was a commercially active city with ties to Russian trade networks, which gave its mint continued relevance even as central authority weakened.