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20 Shahi - Shah Sulayman I Isfahan mint
| Issuer | Safavid Dynasty |
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| Year | 1666-1694 |
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| Diameter | 50 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | بنده شاه ولایت سلیمان |
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| Reverse script | Arabic/Persian |
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Shah Sulayman I — born Safi II, he was re-crowned in 1668 after a run of bad omens plagued his first coronation — presided over a Safavid state in visible decline. Military reversals against the Ottomans and Uzbeks, combined with a court increasingly controlled by the harem and eunuch factions, drained Isfahan's administrative coherence. The 20 Shahi denomination itself reflects the sprawling silver coinage reforms of the later Safavid period, when large-flan issues circulated more as bullion instruments than transactional currency.
Isfahan as mint city matters here: it remained the imperial capital and the most tightly supervised of the Safavid mints, making provincial die drift less likely on these pieces than on contemporaneous Tabriz or Qandahar output.