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2 Shahi `Muhammadi` - Muhammad Khudabanda Safavi Type B, Rasht

Issuer Safavid Dynasty
Year 1582
Type Standard circulation coin
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Obverse script Arabic
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Reverse lettering غلام امام محمد مهدی علیه و آبائه السلام سلطان ابوالمظفر محمد پادشاه بن طهماسب الحسینی خلدالله ملکه ضرب رشت۹۹۰
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Muhammad Khudabanda was nearly blind — contemporaries described him as unable to distinguish faces at close range — and his decade-long reign from 1578 was dominated by his wife Mahd-i Ulya until her murder in 1579, after which factional Qizilbash commanders effectively ran the empire. The Rasht mint, operating in Gilan on the Caspian littoral, was one of several provincial operations that continued striking through this internal chaos.

Album 2620 encompasses considerable die variety across provincial mints, and Rasht attributions within the type rely heavily on mint name orthography specific to this locality.

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