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10 Tumân - Moẓaffar od-Dīn Qājār
| Issuer | Imperial Iranian Mint |
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| Year | 1897 |
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| Value | 10 Toman (تومان) (100) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a large, ornate multi-line Arabic calligraphic inscription in elegant Nastaliq script occupying the central field, conveying the royal titles and denomination of the issuing monarch. An inner border of alternating rosette or star ornaments frames the inscription, with the mint name طهران (Tehran) appearing at the top near the rim and the Hijri date ۱۳۱۴ and denomination ده تومان (ten tomans) integrated within the legend. The outer rim is plain, and the overall composition reflects the formal titulature style standard to Qajar gold coinage of the period. |
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Moẓaffar od-Dīn inherited the Qajar throne in 1896 following the assassination of his father Nāṣer od-Dīn Shāh, who had reigned for nearly half a century. The new shah's chronic ill health and taste for European travel drained the treasury almost immediately — his first two foreign tours alone required loans from Russia, signed away against Iranian customs revenues. High-denomination gold coinage of this first regnal year circulated within a court economy already trending toward insolvency.
The 1906 Constitutional Revolution, which forced Moẓaffar od-Dīn to sign the founding charter weeks before his death, makes early issues from his reign read differently in retrospect.