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50 Dinar - Naser al-Din Qajar Isfahan
| Issuer | Iran |
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| Year | 1876-1877 |
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| Value | 50 Dinars (0.05) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | The Shir-o-Khorshid (Lion and Sun) device occupies the central field, depicting a lion passant to the left, its right forepaw raised and brandishing an upright sword, with a radiant rising sun emerging from behind its back. The motif serves as the royal emblem of the Qajar dynasty and is rendered in a bold, if somewhat crude, engraving style consistent with provincial hammered coinage. The denomination legend appears in Arabic script below or surrounding the central device. The field is plain, with no additional border ornamentation on this face. |
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Naser al-Din Shah's copper coinage of the 1870s was produced under a monetary system in chronic disarray. The Qajar mints operated with considerable local autonomy, and Isfahan struck its own dies with variations in execution that distinguish its output from Tehran and Tabriz issues. KM#868 is among the Isfahan-specific attributions within this denomination, identifiable by die characteristics that reflect the workshop's particular engraving habits rather than any centralized standard.
Naser al-Din had returned from his first European tour in 1873 genuinely impressed by Western monetary reform — but the infrastructure to implement it remained years away.