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1 Rial - Fatḥ Alī Qājār Type D, Yazd mint
| Issuer | Iran |
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| Year | 1817-1824 |
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| Value | 1 Rial |
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| Obverse lettering | السّلطان ابن السّلطان فتحعلی شاه قاجار |
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| Reverse lettering | ضرب دارالعبــادۀ یزد ۱۲٣۴ |
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Fath Ali Shah's coinage was produced across a decentralized network of provincial mints operating with considerable autonomy — Yazd, a desert city whose wealth came from the Silk Road textile trade, ran its own dies and its own schedules. The result is that Yazd-mint rials from this reign show more inter-die variation than nearly any comparable provincial issue, and the mint's output during these years fluctuated sharply with local economic conditions rather than central Qajar treasury demands.
KM#697.19 distinguishes the Yazd mint from the dozen-odd other facilities striking the same type concurrently, several of which have proven difficult to attribute definitively even in specialist literature.