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1 Abbasi - Sultan Husayn I Type B, Yerevan
| Issuer | Safavid Dynasty |
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| Year | 1696-1710 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | The obverse bears an entirely epigraphic design executed in elegant nastaliq script, characteristic of late Safavid coinage. The field is divided by horizontal ruled lines into registers containing the Shi'a kalima and the names of the Twelve Imams. The uppermost register carries the shahada — 'There is no god but God, Muhammad is the Messenger of God, Ali is the Friend of God' — followed in successive registers by the names of the remaining Imams: Hasan, Husayn, Ali, Muhammad, Ja'far, Musa, Ali, Muhammad, Ali, Hasan, and Muhammad. The flan is irregular, as is typical of hammered Safavid silver, with portions of the legend occasionally clipped at the periphery. |
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| Mintage | ND - - 1107 (1696) - - 1109 (1697) - - 1110 (1698) - - 1111 (1699) - - 1115 (1703) - - 1117 (1705) - - 1119 (1707) - - 1122 (1710) - - |
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Sultan Husayn I, the last effective Safavid shah, presided over a court increasingly paralyzed by harem politics and clerical influence. The Yerevan mint served as one of the dynasty's northwestern outposts, producing silver in a region perpetually contested between Safavid Persia and Ottoman Turkey — the two empires had fought over the city four times in the previous century. The Type B designation marks a die revision within Husayn's long reign, though the exact trigger for the change remains undocumented in the secondary literature.
Husayn's reign ended in 1722 when Afghan forces under Mahmud Hotaki sacked Isfahan and took the shah prisoner. Coins from his final minting years are consequently among the last silver struck under uncontested Safavid authority.