Nāṣer al-Dīn Shāh ruled Iran for nearly half a century before being assassinated in 1896 by Mīrzā Reżā Kermānī, a follower of the pan-Islamic reformer Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī. By 1893, his reign had long since curdled from early reformist ambition into a government that sold concessions — telegraph lines, fisheries, the infamous Reuter concession — to European powers to fund a court of extraordinary extravagance. The 2000 Dīnār denomination was the workhorse of the Qājār silver coinage in this period, circulating widely despite chronic public distrust of government-issued money.
KM#907 was struck at Tehran. The .900 fine standard reflected ongoing efforts to align Iranian coinage with European fineness conventions, though debasement suspicions persisted among bazaar merchants regardless.
Nāṣer al-Dīn Shāh ruled Iran for nearly half a century before being assassinated in 1896 by Mīrzā Reżā Kermānī, a follower of the pan-Islamic reformer Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī. By 1893, his reign had long since curdled from early reformist ambition into a government that sold concessions — telegraph lines, fisheries, the infamous Reuter concession — to European powers to fund a court of extraordinary extravagance. The 2000 Dīnār denomination was the workhorse of the Qājār silver coinage in this period, circulating widely despite chronic public distrust of government-issued money.
KM#907 was struck at Tehran. The .900 fine standard reflected ongoing efforts to align Iranian coinage with European fineness conventions, though debasement suspicions persisted among bazaar merchants regardless.