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1 Ashrafi - Nader Afshar
| Issuer | Afsharid Dynasty |
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| Year | 1730 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse lettering | لا اله الا الله محمد رسول الله علی ولی الله |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Nader Shah had not yet formally declared himself king when early Ashrafi issues like this one were struck — he ruled in the name of the Safavid pretender Abbas III until 1736, making coins from this period politically ambiguous objects, issued by a man with all the power and none of the title. The Ashrafi denomination itself was inherited from the Safavid monetary system, which Nader retained largely intact while he consolidated control over an empire seized through pure military force.
Album 2735 places this squarely in the earliest Afsharid series, before Nader's own name displaced Safavid formulae from the coin's religious and dynastic inscriptions.