1 Qiran - Fat'h Ali Qajar Type E, Shiraz mint

Fat'h Ali Shah's qiran coinage was itself a relatively new denomination when this piece was struck — the qiran was introduced in the early nineteenth century as part of an effort to rationalize Iran's chaotic monetary system, which had suffered from decades of fragmented regional minting under inconsistent weight standards. The Shiraz mint, operating in Fars province, maintained its own production rhythm largely independent of Tehran's directives, which accounts for the meaningful variation collectors encounter across provincial issues of this type.

KM#710 encompasses several die variants from multiple mints, and Shiraz examples can be distinguished by their mint epithet. By 1829, Fat'h Ali's court was absorbing the diplomatic fallout of the Treaty of Turkmenchay, signed the previous year, which ceded Armenian and Azerbaijani territories to Russia.