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5000 Dinar - Ahmad Qajar
| Issuer | Iran |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Central field features a dotted inner circle enclosing a multi-line Arabic-script legend identifying the ruler as Sultan Ahmad Shah Qajar, surmounted by the royal cipher. The Arabic date 1334 appears in the lower portion of the inner circle. The entire central device is surrounded by a wreath of oak branches tied at the base with a ribbon bow, all within a plain raised rim. |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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Ahmad Shah came to the throne in 1909 at age eleven, following his father Mohammad Ali Shah's forced abdication under constitutional pressure backed by Russian and British interests. By 1916, Iran was nominally neutral in the First World War yet effectively occupied in its northern and southern zones by Russian and British forces respectively — the government in Tehran controlling little beyond the capital. Coinage continued largely as a matter of form.
KM#1075 represents the final mature type of the Qajar milled silver series before Ahmad's eventual deposition in 1925 by Reza Khan.