1 Ashrafi - Shahrokh Afshar 2nd reign

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.