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10 Toman - Nāṣer al-Dīn Qājār
| Issuer | Tehran Mint (Dar al-Zarb) |
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| Year | 1880-1894 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Bust of Nāṣer al-Dīn Shah Qājār facing slightly left, depicted in military uniform with epaulettes and a decorative clasp at the collar. The Shah wears his characteristic tall Qajar lambskin Kolah crown adorned with a prominent jewelled aigrette spray at the top. His distinctive full moustache is rendered in fine detail. The portrait is executed in a naturalistic European-influenced style typical of late Qajar court art, set against a plain, unlegended field bordered by a continuous reeded or beaded rim. |
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| Obverse script | Persian |
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Nasir al-Din Shah ruled Iran for nearly half a century, but his treasury was chronically strained — partly by the enormous cost of his three European tours, which he financed in part by selling concessions to foreign interests, most notoriously the 1872 Reuter Concession and the 1890 Tobacco Regie. The 10 Toman occupied the top of the Qajar gold denomination structure and was never a coin of daily commerce; pieces entering circulation at all was the exception.
The shah was assassinated in 1896, two years after the close of this issue's production window, by a follower of Jamal al-Din al-Afghani — leaving the Qajar monetary system, already undermined by foreign debt and concession revenues, to his far weaker successors.