1 Abbasi - Safi I Safavi Type C, Yerevan mint

Yerevan (Erivan) changed hands repeatedly between the Safavid and Ottoman empires across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and its mint operated only during periods of firm Persian control. The window of 1641–1643 falls within a relatively stable stretch under Safi I, after the 1639 Treaty of Zuhab finally fixed the Ottoman-Safavid border and confirmed Yerevan within the Safavid sphere — ending nearly a century of contested occupation. Without that treaty, this coin very likely does not exist.

Safi I's reign was marked by severe purges of the Qizilbash military aristocracy, and his administration leaned heavily on Georgian-born ghulam officials. The Yerevan governorship during this period was held by such figures, making this mint's output a direct product of that administrative reshaping.