Ahmad Shah was thirteen years old when he took the throne in 1909, installed under regent governance after his father Mohammad Ali Shah was deposed and forced into Russian exile. This 2000 dinar denomination — the kran, effectively — circulated through one of the most volatile periods in Iranian monetary history, bracketed by the Constitutional Revolution's aftermath on one end and Reza Khan's coup of 1921 on the other. Ahmad himself was formally deposed in 1925 while abroad in Europe, never returning to Iran.
The .900 fine silver content tracks closely with earlier Qajar krans, though minting quality and consistency varied considerably across the Tehran and provincial facilities during this reign.
Ahmad Shah was thirteen years old when he took the throne in 1909, installed under regent governance after his father Mohammad Ali Shah was deposed and forced into Russian exile. This 2000 dinar denomination — the kran, effectively — circulated through one of the most volatile periods in Iranian monetary history, bracketed by the Constitutional Revolution's aftermath on one end and Reza Khan's coup of 1921 on the other. Ahmad himself was formally deposed in 1925 while abroad in Europe, never returning to Iran.
The .900 fine silver content tracks closely with earlier Qajar krans, though minting quality and consistency varied considerably across the Tehran and provincial facilities during this reign.