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1 Qiran - Sa'id Muhammad Khan Herat
| Issuer | Herat Mint |
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| Year | 1853-1854 |
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| Currency | Local Rupees (1747-1891) |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears a multi-line Arabic legend in bold calligraphic script, arranged in horizontal registers divided by a ruled line. The upper register contains a religious invocation, while the lower register displays the ruler's name and titles. The date in AH numerals appears along the lower margin. The flan is characteristic of hand-struck hammered coinage, with an irregular, slightly scalloped rim. |
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| Edge | Plain. |
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Herat in the early 1850s was effectively a contested buffer zone — nominally under Afghan Barakzai control but with Qajar Iran pressing claims and British India watching anxiously. Sa'id Muhammad Khan governed as a semi-autonomous figure, and his coinage reflects that ambiguity: locally struck silver asserting a political identity that no outside power was prepared to fully recognize or fully ignore.
The A#3156 reference places this in a transitional series that collectors frequently conflate with contemporaneous Kabul issues. The two are not interchangeable.