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1 Tumân - Nāṣer al-Dīn Qājār
| Issuer | Iran |
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| Year | 1884 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Front-facing bust of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, Shah of Iran, depicted in military uniform adorned with epaulettes and a large decorative order or medallion on the chest. The Shah wears the distinctive tall Qajar astrakhan crown (kolah) surmounted by a jewelled aigrette. The portrait is set within a beaded inner circle, surrounded by a wreath of olive branches extending around the entire border of the coin, enclosed by a milled outer rim. The effigy is rendered in high relief in a formal, regal style characteristic of late 19th-century Qajar royal portraiture. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Nāṣer al-Dīn Shāh's reign lasted nearly fifty years — the longest of any Qajar monarch — and his treasury issued tuman coins across multiple decades, but the series is riddled with die inconsistencies and unofficial restrike activity that has complicated attribution ever since. KM#917 was produced at Tehran during a period when the Iranian monetary system was under increasing pressure from Russian and British commercial interests, both empires actively maneuvering to control Persian trade concessions.
The Reuter Concession scandal of 1872 had already shaken the court's finances. By the mid-1880s, silver procurement for large-denomination coinage was itself a diplomatic matter.