1 Abbasi - Safi I Safavi Type B, Baghdad

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.