1 Shahi - Abbas I Safavi Rasht mint, Type D2

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.