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1 Abbasi - Sultan Husayn I Type B, Yerevan
| Issuer | Safavid Dynasty |
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| Year | 1696-1710 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is wholly epigraphic, featuring a Persian verse legend arranged in horizontal registers separated by ruled lines, rendered in bold nastaliq script. The central field displays the royal formula proclaiming Sultan Husayn as 'the slave of the Commander of the Faithful,' asserting legitimacy through Shi'a devotion. Flanking floral or dotted ornaments appear at the margins of the text registers, a decorative convention of the period. The lower portion of the field carries the mint name Yerevan (Iravan), identifying the place of striking. The flan edges are uneven and show characteristic hammer-striking distortion. |
| Reverse script | Arabic/Persian |
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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.