1 Tumân - Fatḥ Alī Qājār Type W, Shīrāz mint

The Qajar tuman underwent repeated weight and fineness adjustments during Fath Ali Shah's reign, making type attribution genuinely difficult without careful die study. Type W represents one of the later standardization attempts, produced at the Shiraz mint — a facility that served as the primary monetary center for Fars Province and whose output often differed subtly in die engraving style from Tehran or Tabriz.

Fath Ali Shah ruled during the disastrous Russo-Persian Wars, the treaties of Gulistan (1813) and Turkmenchay (1828) stripping Iran of Caucasian territories and imposing heavy indemnities that strained the royal treasury throughout exactly this period of issue.