1 Shahi - Sultan Hussayn Safavi Mashad mint

Sultan Husayn was the last effective Safavid shah, his reign ending in 1722 when Afghan forces under Mahmud Hotak besieged Isfahan for six months and starved the capital into submission. By 1719, the dynasty was already contracting — provincial mints like Mashhad were operating with diminishing central oversight, and output quality varied considerably as a result. The shahi denomination itself had been debased progressively across the seventeenth century, leaving late Safavid silver issues lighter and less pure than their earlier counterparts.

Mashhad's status as a pilgrimage city gave its mint unusual continuity even as the empire frayed — shrine revenues kept the city economically active when other provincial centers had already gone quiet.