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2 Shahi In the name of Ismāʿil III Safavi, Type A, Esfāhān mint
| Issuer | Safavid Dynasty |
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| Year | 1758 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Hammered silver flan bearing a two-line Persian poetic couplet in bold Nasta'liq script, invoking the name of Ali ibn Musa al-Ridha, arranged in horizontal registers across the field. The mint name Esfahan (اصفهان) appears in the lower register, flanked by decorative foliate elements. The AH date 1171 is inscribed in the exergue below. The coin exhibits the characteristic irregular planchet and slightly uneven strike typical of late Safavid hammered coinage. |
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| Mintage | 1171 (1758) |
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Ismāʿil III was a puppet shah installed by the Zand regent Karim Khan in 1750, never exercising any real authority. His name appeared on coinage purely as a legitimizing fiction — Karim Khan, though the effective ruler of much of Iran, declined to claim the throne himself and instead governed as *vakil* (regent) behind a nominal Safavid figurehead. This coin is therefore less a product of Safavid rule than of Zand political calculation.
Ismāʿil III was deposed in 1760, two years after this piece was struck at Esfāhān.