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1 Qiran - Nāṣer al-Dīn Qājār Mashhad mint
| Issuer | Iran |
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| Year | 1850-1878 |
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| Weight | 5 g |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears the royal titulature of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar in ornate Arabic-script legend, surrounded by a wreath of eight five-pointed stars arranged in a circular border. The eight stars are symbolic of the eighth Imam of Twelver Shi'ite Islam, Ali ibn Musa al-Ridha. The inscription identifies the sovereign by his full regnal title. The overall design is set within a beaded or plain circular border typical of Qajar-era coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Nāṣer al-Dīn Shāh's reign of nearly fifty years was the longest of any Qājār ruler, and the qiran was his workhorse denomination — struck at multiple mints with varying quality and consistency. Mashhad, as a major pilgrimage city in Khorasan, maintained its own mint partly for the practical reason that vast numbers of Shia pilgrims required local coinage, and partly because central control over distant provincial mints was often nominal rather than real.
KM#824.1 distinguishes the Mashhad issue from other mint attributions in the type primarily through the mint name in the margin formula. Provincial striking quality at Mashhad was inconsistent across this long date range.