1 Shahi - Nāṣer al-Dīn Qājār mule

A mule in the Qajar series is no accident of careless workmanship — it reflects the chronic administrative disorder of Iran's provincial mints during Nāṣer al-Dīn Shāh's later reign, where die management across Tabriz, Tehran, Isfahan, and a half-dozen lesser facilities was, at best, loosely supervised. KM#884 pairs dies that were not intended to function together, and the combination is documented rather than speculated. Nāṣer al-Dīn was assassinated in 1896, and mint consolidation efforts that might have ended such anomalies never fully materialized during his lifetime.