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1 Shahi - Abbas I Safavi Rasht mint, Type D2
| Issuer | Safavid Dynasty |
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| Year | 1615 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Abbas I aggressively reformed Safavid coinage beginning around 1608, introducing a new weight standard and reorganizing the mint network to fund his wars against the Ottomans and Uzbeks. Rasht, as the principal city of Gilan province on the Caspian littoral, operated a mint that served the region's active silk trade — Gilan was the empire's most productive silk-growing territory, and silver moved through it in volume.
The D2 type classification distinguishes this issue within the Abbas I series by specific calligraphic die arrangement. Specimens from Rasht in identifiable type variants are appreciably scarcer than output from Isfahan or Tabriz.