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1 Bisti - Abbas I Safavi Yerevan mint
| Issuer | Safavid Dynasty |
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| Year | 1621 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | بنده شاه ولایت عباس ضرب ایروان ۱۰۳۰ (Translation: Iravan mint) |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Abbas I established Yerevan as a Safavid administrative center following his decisive campaigns against the Ottomans in the early seventeenth century, and the mint there operated as a direct instrument of that consolidation. The bisti, a fractional silver denomination, circulated heavily in the Caucasus frontier zone where small-denomination coinage was essential for local commerce. Yerevan mint output from this period is sparse in surviving examples — the city changed hands repeatedly between Safavid and Ottoman control across the following decades, and much of the coinage was likely melted or lost during successive occupations.