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10 Shahi - Nāṣer al-Dīn Qājār
| Issuer | Iran |
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| Year | 1893-1894 |
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| Currency | Qiran (1825-1932) |
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| Reverse description | A rampant lion passant to the left, brandishing an upraised sword in its right forepaw, occupies the central field. The solar disc with radiating rays rises behind the lion's back, and an imperial crown sits above the sun. The AH regnal year digits are divided, appearing before and after the lion's legs. In the exergue, the denomination inscription in Persian reads 'Dah Shahi' (10 Shahi), and a wreath of laurel branches encircles the entire central design. |
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| Mintage | 1310 (1893) - - 1311 (1894) - - |
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Nāṣer al-Dīn Shāh had ruled Iran for nearly half a century by the time this issue appeared, financing his reign partly through the sale of commercial concessions to European powers — a practice that had already provoked the Tobacco Protest of 1891–92, in which a nationwide boycott forced him to cancel a monopoly granted to a British firm. That crisis, resolved just months before this coin's minting, marked one of the first successful mass movements against Qajar authority and foreshadowed the Constitutional Revolution of 1906.
The .900 fineness reflects a standardization push tied to Iranian monetary reforms of the 1870s under Nāṣer al-Dīn's finance administration.