1 Ashrafi - Abbas III Safavi Type A, Esfāhān mint

Abbas III was installed as shah in 1732 at roughly eight years old, a puppet of the powerful Afghan-fighting general Nader Khan, who would depose him entirely in 1736 to found the Afsharid dynasty. The entire Abbas III coinage window is therefore compressed into fewer than four years of a regency government, with Nader effectively running the empire while nominally minting in a child's name. Esfahan, still the Safavid ceremonial capital despite its sack by Afghan forces in 1722, retained its mint operations through this transitional period.

The KM#348.1 designation separates this emission from Type B by die characteristics specific to the Esfahan workshop.