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1 Abbasi - Sulayman Safavi Type C, Nakhjawan
| Issuer | Safavid Dynasty |
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| Year | 1685-1686 |
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| Value | 1 Abbasi (4) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a multi-line nastaliq inscription filling the entire field, identifying the ruler as Sulayman, servant of the King of the Velayat (i.e., of Ali), along with the mint name Nakhjawan (Nakhchivan) and the AH date 1097. The bold, sweeping strokes of the script are characteristic of late Safavid hammered coinage, with the text arranged in horizontal registers across the flan. Floral or geometric ornamental devices typical of the Type C classification appear as separators between inscription lines. A plain border runs along the irregular circumference of the coin. |
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Sulayman I spent much of his reign in the harem, delegating governance to viziers while the Safavid administrative apparatus ran largely on inertia. The Nakhjawan mint — situated in what is now the Nakhchivan exclave of Azerbaijan — was one of the provincial operations kept productive precisely because the region sat astride trade routes connecting Persia to Ottoman Anatolia, making a functioning local coinage a practical necessity rather than a symbolic one.
Album 2666 encompasses considerable die variation across provincial mints, and Nakhjawan output from this period is among the less frequently encountered in Western collections.