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5 Shahi - Sultan Husayn Yerevan mint
| Issuer | Safavid Dynasty |
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| Year | 1717 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Irregular oval hammered silver flan with Arabic nasta'liq legends arranged in three lines across the field. The upper line bears the royal title and dedication reading 'Servant of the Shah of Wilaya, Husayn'; the central line gives the mint name 'Zarb Yerevan' (struck at Yerevan); and the lower line records the AH regnal date 1129. The bold, deeply incuse lettering is characteristic of late Safavid provincial mint production. |
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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.