Mohammad Ali Shah's reign was already precarious by 1908 — he had bombarded the Majles into submission in June of that year, suspending the constitution and triggering the full outbreak of the Constitutional Revolution. Pattern coinage from this moment exists in a strange liminal space: struck by a government asserting authority it was rapidly losing, for a monetary system it would never fully stabilize. Mohammad Ali was deposed and exiled to Russia in July 1909.
KM#Pn30 pattern status means this design never reached circulation, likely abandoned as the political crisis consumed any administrative bandwidth for monetary reform.
Mohammad Ali Shah's reign was already precarious by 1908 — he had bombarded the Majles into submission in June of that year, suspending the constitution and triggering the full outbreak of the Constitutional Revolution. Pattern coinage from this moment exists in a strange liminal space: struck by a government asserting authority it was rapidly losing, for a monetary system it would never fully stabilize. Mohammad Ali was deposed and exiled to Russia in July 1909.
KM#Pn30 pattern status means this design never reached circulation, likely abandoned as the political crisis consumed any administrative bandwidth for monetary reform.