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1 Fals - Anonymous Sa'ujbulagh mint
| Issuer | Sa'ujbulagh, City of |
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| Year | 1815 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Reverse description | Arabic legend in large, boldly rendered Nasta'liq script occupying the central field, recording the mint name Sa'ujbulagh and the word 'zarb' (struck), arranged in two or three lines within a plain inner circle. The inscription is enclosed by a raised beaded border consistent with that on the obverse. The flan is irregular with characteristic hammered fabric, and the field shows slight die wear and surface patination. |
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| Edge | Plain. |
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Sa'ujbulagh — present-day Mahabad in northwestern Iran — operated as a semi-autonomous Kurdish administrative center under Qajar suzerainty in the early nineteenth century. Local copper coinage of this type was struck to fill a chronic shortage of small denomination currency that the Qajar central mint in Tabriz rarely addressed for peripheral regions. Anonymous civic coppers like this fals circulated almost exclusively within the immediate town economy, which explains why surviving examples typically show heavy wear concentrated on the flat fields rather than the devices.