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1 Mithqal - Muhammad Khodabanda Safavi
| Issuer | Safavid Dynasty |
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| Year | 1578-1587 |
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| Currency | Shahi (1501-1798) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Mintage | 985 (1578) - - 986 (1579) - - 987 (1579) - - 988 (1580) - - 989 (1581) - - 990 (1582) - - 991 (1583) - - 992 (1584) - - 993 (1585) - - 994 (1586) - - 995 (1587) - - |
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Muhammad Khodabanda was nearly blind when he was placed on the Safavid throne in 1578 — passed over for years precisely because of his infirmity, then elevated as a compromise candidate after the murder of Ismail II. His decade-long reign was dominated by regency struggles, Qizilbash factional warfare, and sustained Ottoman pressure on the northwestern frontier. The Ottomans seized Tabriz in 1585, forcing the court eastward to Qazvin.
Gold mithqals of this reign are scarcer than their silver counterparts partly because production was repeatedly disrupted as mint cities changed hands during the Ottoman-Safavid conflict of 1578–1590.