Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Toman - Naser al-Din Qajar
| Issuer | Imperial Iranian Mint (Qajar Dynasty) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1877 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Qiran (1825-1932) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Facing slightly left, the draped bust of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar dominates the field, rendered in finely engraved high relief. The Shah is depicted wearing his distinctive tall Qajar crown (kolah), richly ornamented with foliate and jewelled motifs, with pendant drops at the brow. He is attired in a heavily decorated military tunic adorned with orders and insignia at the breast. A beaded border runs along the coin's outer rim. The portrait is executed in the characteristic realist court style of the late Qajar period. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | 1294 (1877) |
| Additional information |
Naser al-Din Shah's reign produced a chaotic sequence of toman denominations and weight standards, revised repeatedly as the court negotiated foreign loans and granted concessions to Russian and British interests. The 1877 issue falls within a period when the Iranian treasury was under acute pressure from the costs of Naser al-Din's first European tour in 1873, which had exposed the Qajar court to considerable financial obligations and a taste for expensive modernization projects that the state could not sustain.
KM#931 is frequently confused with adjacent toman types from the same decade due to overlapping mint years and similar module — a known problem in Qajar gold attribution that has produced misattributions in major auction records.