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2 Shahi - Sulayman I Safavi Type B, Nakhjawan
| Issuer | Safavid Dynasty |
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| Reference(s) | Album Islamic#2661 |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Nakhjawan — modern Nakhchivan — functioned as a Safavid provincial mint sporadically across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, its output reflecting the region's contested status on the Ottoman-Safavid frontier. The town changed hands multiple times during the prolonged wars between the two empires, and coins struck there carry an implicit geographic argument: minting at Nakhjawan was itself an assertion of territorial control.
Sulayman I reigned 1666–1694, a period of relative Safavid retrenchment rather than expansion. Album's Type B designation for this issue distinguishes a later die arrangement from the earlier Type A, though the specific typological boundary for A2661 rests on calligraphic layout differences that require direct comparison to confirm attribution.