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5 Shahi - Sultan Husayn Yerevan mint
| Issuer | Safavid Dynasty |
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| Year | 1717 |
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| Value | 5 Shahi |
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| Obverse lettering | لا اله الا الله محمد رسول الله علي ولي الله حسن حسين علي محمد جعفر موسي علي محمد علي حسن محمد |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Sultan Husayn's reign saw the Safavid Empire in accelerating decline, and Yerevan — a strategically contested city on the Ottoman frontier — changed hands repeatedly across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries before remaining under Persian control into the early eighteenth. Coinage from this mint reflects the administrative effort to maintain fiscal infrastructure in a border province under chronic pressure. Within five years of this coin's striking, the Afghan Ghilzai uprising would effectively end Sultan Husayn's rule; he surrendered Isfahan to Mahmud Hotaki in 1722.