1 Qiran - Nāṣer al-Dīn Qājār Mashhad mint

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.