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2 Shahi - Abbas I Safavi Second Standard, Type B, Nimruz
| Issuer | Safavid Dynasty |
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| Year | 1597-1629 |
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| Value | 2 Shahi |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Abbas I reorganized Safavid coinage in 1596–97 following his military campaigns to recapture Khorasan from the Uzbeks, standardizing weights and introducing regional mint identifiers with greater consistency than his predecessors had managed. Nimruz — the ancient region centered on Sistan in what is now southeastern Iran and southwestern Afghanistan — sat on a contested frontier, and its mint output reflects the administrative effort to integrate peripheral territories into the reformed monetary system.
Type B of this standard is distinguished from Type A primarily by the arrangement of the mint and date cartouches, a die-layout decision rather than a policy change. Nimruz-mint pieces are notably scarcer than those from Tabriz, Isfahan, or Qazvin.