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1 Ashrafi - Shahrokh Afshar 2nd reign
| Issuer | Iran |
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| Year | 1750-1755 |
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| Value | 1 Ashrafi (48) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse bears a four-line Persian poetic legend in cursive Nasta'liq script, filling the entire coin field. The inscription, composed as a celebratory verse, reads that Iran regained its youth in the name of Shahrokh, who struck coins as Sahib-Qiran (Lord of the Auspicious Conjunction). The legend is arranged in flowing diagonal bands across the flan, characteristic of Afsharid hammered gold coinage. The script is deeply struck with bold, rounded strokes, and the field shows the irregular flan edges typical of hand-struck issues of this period. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a two-line Arabic mint and attribution legend within a plain circular border, centered in the field. The inscription reads 'Zarb Mashhad Muqaddas' (Struck at Holy Mashhad), identifying the mint city of Mashhad, the sacred Khorasani capital favored by Shahrokh during his second reign. The lettering is rendered in Nasta'liq script and is boldly struck, with the text occupying the central field. The coin exhibits the slightly irregular, hand-hammered flan typical of Afsharid provincial gold coinage of the mid-eighteenth century. |
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Shahrokh, a grandson of Nadir Shah, ruled Khorasan in a state of near-constant political violence — blinded, deposed, restored, and blinded again across multiple turbulent reigns. This piece dates to his second reign, a period when his authority barely extended beyond Mashhad and his court survived largely at the sufferance of Afghan and Zand rivals pressing in from every direction. That Mashhad continued striking gold at all under these conditions is itself notable.