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2 Qiran - Nāṣer al-Dīn Qājār
| Issuer | Iran |
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| Year | 1893-1894 |
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| Value | 2 Qiran (قران) |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by a bold, multi-line Arabic legend in Naskh/Nasta'liq calligraphy, reading 'al-Sultan ibn al-Sultan Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar Sahib-qiran,' enclosed within a beaded inner circle. Surrounding the inscription is a decorative wreath of stylized foliate branches, filling the space between the beaded border and the coin's rim. The overall design emphasizes the royal titulature of the Qajar shah, with no portrait present. |
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| Obverse lettering | السلطان ابن السلطان ناصر الدین شاه قاجار صاحبقران |
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Nāṣer al-Dīn Shāh's long reign — 1848 to 1896 — was marked by chronic fiscal pressure and repeated monetary reforms, and the qiran system introduced in 1825 was itself a rationalization attempt that never fully stabilized Iran's coinage. By the 1890s, the shah was deep in debt to Russia and Britain, having sold concessions including the notorious 1890 tobacco monopoly granted to a British firm — a concession so deeply resented that the resulting boycott and clerical fatwa forced its cancellation in 1892, just a year before this piece was struck.