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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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| Obverse description | Within a beaded circle, a two-line Persian royal legend inscribed in the field, identifying the ruler as Sultan Saheb Qaran Naser al-Din Shah Qajar. An imperial crown surmounts the inscription, while a decorative wreath frames the entire central device. The second royal inscription type is employed, reflecting the later coinage convention of Naser al-Din Shah's reign. The composition is formal and symmetrical, characteristic of Qajar milled silver coinage. |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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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.