Mohammad Ali Shah took the throne in January 1907 and almost immediately set about dismantling the constitutional gains his father Mozaffar ad-Din had conceded. By June 1908 he used Cossack Brigade troops under Russian officer Vladimir Liakhov to bombard the Majles building in Tehran — the so-called coup against the constitutionalists. This coin was struck in that same year of violent political rupture.
The KM#Pn29 designation marks it as a pattern issue, not a circulating strike. Whether it was suppressed, rejected, or simply never advanced to full production is unrecorded.
Mohammad Ali Shah took the throne in January 1907 and almost immediately set about dismantling the constitutional gains his father Mozaffar ad-Din had conceded. By June 1908 he used Cossack Brigade troops under Russian officer Vladimir Liakhov to bombard the Majles building in Tehran — the so-called coup against the constitutionalists. This coin was struck in that same year of violent political rupture.
The KM#Pn29 designation marks it as a pattern issue, not a circulating strike. Whether it was suppressed, rejected, or simply never advanced to full production is unrecorded.