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1 Mithqal - Isma'il I Safavi Tabrīz mint
| Issuer | Safavid Dynasty |
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| Year | 1522 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Isma'il I founded the Safavid dynasty in 1501 and immediately made Twelver Shi'ism the state religion of Iran — a politically aggressive act that put him in direct confrontation with the Sunni Ottoman Empire. The coinage he issued from Tabriz, his capital, carried that sectarian declaration into everyday commerce. Tabriz itself fell to the Ottomans under Selim I in 1514 following the Battle of Chaldiran, though the Safavids reoccupied it shortly after.
Isma'il died in 1524, two years after this piece was struck, a broken man by most contemporary accounts — Chaldiran had shattered his belief in his own divine invincibility.