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1 Toman - Naser al-Din Qajar
| Issuer | Iran |
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| Year | 1855 |
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| Value | 1 Toman (تومان) (10) |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by a multi-line nastaliq Persian legend naming Sultan Naser al-Din Shah, rendered in bold calligraphic strokes. The AH date 1271 appears in Eastern Arabic numerals along the lower portion of the central inscription. The legend is enclosed within an open wreath of leafy branches tied at the base with a decorative ribbon bow, framed by a beaded border. A small decorative motif, likely a sun or floral device, is partially visible at the uppermost point inside the wreath. |
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| Obverse lettering | السلطان ناصرالدین شاه ۱۲۷۱ (Translation: Al-Sultan Naser al-Din Shah) |
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The toman was not an Iranian invention — it derived from the Mongol tümen, meaning ten thousand, and had circulated as a unit of account across Persia for centuries before being struck in gold. Naser al-Din Shah, who came to the throne in 1848, inherited a mint system in disarray and spent much of the 1850s attempting to regularize coin weights and fineness across provincial mints that had long operated with considerable independence.
KM#858 belongs to that transitional period, before the more systematic reforms later pressed on Iran by European creditors and advisors.