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1000 Dīnār - Ahmad Qājār
| Issuer | Iran |
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| Year | 1909-1912 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | The traditional Iranian Lion and Sun device occupies the central field, depicting a passant lion in profile facing right, holding an upright sword in its right forepaw, with a radiant sun rising behind its back. The device rests on a short horizontal ground line, above which the denomination legend is inscribed in Arabic script. The central motif is framed by an ornate wreath of intertwined foliage and flowers, surmounted at the apex by an imperial crown, all enclosed within a beaded border and plain raised rim. |
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Ahmad Shah acceded to the Qajar throne in July 1909 at age eleven, installed by constitutionalist forces who had just deposed his father Mohammad Ali Shah after a protracted civil war. The coins struck in his name during these early regnal years — before his formal coronation in 1914 — were issued under a regent, with the government simultaneously negotiating the division of Iranian territory between Britain and Russia under the 1907 convention already in force.
KM#1038 spans a transitional mint period when Tehran's output was inconsistent and several provincial mints were winding down operations entirely.