1 Abbasi - Sulayman Safavi Type C, Ganja

Sulayman I spent much of his reign in the harem, delegating governance to his viziers while the Safavid administrative apparatus ground on largely by inertia. Ganja — situated in what is now northwestern Azerbaijan — was a significant provincial mint, active during periods when the shah's actual authority over the Caucasian periphery was intermittently challenged by Ottoman pressure. Album 2666 covers a broad range of Sulayman's silver output, and Type C designations within the series typically reflect late-reign die modifications as mint supervisors adjusted to declining silver quality in the 1690s.