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1 Abbasi - Safi I Safavi Type B, Baghdad
| Issuer | Safavid Dynasty |
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| Year | 1634 |
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| Reference(s) | A#2638.2, KM#134.3 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a two-panel calligraphic composition in nastaliq script, similarly divided by a horizontal line into upper and lower registers. The upper field contains the mint name and regnal date, while the lower field bears the name of Shah Safi I along with Shi'a devotional formulae. The deeply incuse lettering is characteristic of Safavid hammered silver production, and the irregular flan edges reflect hand-cut blank preparation typical of the Baghdad mint in the early seventeenth century. |
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| Reverse lettering | شاه صفي بغداد 1043 |
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Safi I inherited the Safavid throne in 1629 after Shah Abbas I — the dynasty's most capable ruler — and immediately began consolidating power through a systematic purge of potential rivals, including several of his own relatives. Baghdad at this point had been Safavid since 1624, when Abbas I retook it from the Ottomans after nearly a century of contested control. That window closed in 1638, when Murad IV besieged and recaptured the city under the Treaty of Zuhab, drawing a boundary that would hold for generations. Coins struck at the Baghdad mint in Safi's name therefore represent a narrow four-year span at most before the mint returned to Ottoman hands permanently.