2 Shahi 'Muhammadi' - Mohammad Khodābande Safavi type A, Nakhjawan mint

Mohammad Khodābande came to the throne in 1578 almost by accident — nearly blind and considered politically harmless by the Qizilbash emirs who expected to rule through him. The Nakhjawan mint, operating in what is now the Nakhchivan exclave of Azerbaijan, was actively producing during the early Ottoman-Safavid wars of the 1570s–80s, a conflict that would eventually see the region change hands under the 1590 Treaty of Constantinople. Coins from this mint and reign carry a particular historical weight given how contested the southern Caucasus remained throughout Khodābande's tenure.