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1 Shahi - Abbas I Safavi type E, Mazandaran mint
| Issuer | Safavid Dynasty |
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| Year | 1628 |
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| Weight | 1.88 g |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Irregular hammered silver flan bearing the Shi'a Islamic profession of faith in Nasta'liq script, arranged in three lines divided by a prominent horizontal raised bar. The upper field contains the first portion of the Shahada, and the lower field continues with the names of the Prophet Muhammad and Imam Ali. The bold calligraphic legends fill the flan to its edges, consistent with the hammered coinage tradition of the Safavid period under Shah Abbas I. The reverse affirms the Twelver Shi'a creed central to Safavid dynastic and religious identity. |
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Abbas I died in January 1629, making this piece a terminal issue — struck in the final year of a reign that had fundamentally restructured Persian monetary administration. Abbas centralized mint control as part of broader fiscal reforms tied to his standing army, the ghulam corps, which required reliable, standardized silver payment. Mazandaran, on the Caspian littoral, was one of the provincial mints brought under tighter crown supervision during his reign rather than farmed out to local governors.
The "type E" classification within this series reflects die progression work by album researchers distinguishing calligraphic variants across provincial issues.