6 Shahi - Nader Afshar Type C, Tabriz mint

Nader Shah's coinage reforms of the late 1730s imposed a rigidly centralized design system across his empire's mints, yet Tabriz — a city that had changed hands repeatedly between Safavid and Ottoman control across the preceding century — retained enough administrative inertia to produce recognizable local die variations. The Type C classification distinguishes this emission from the earlier Afsharid issues that still carried residual Safavid stylistic conventions.

Tabriz had been the Safavid capital before Isfahan and carried symbolic weight Nader could not ignore. The mint remained active throughout his campaigns into India and the Ottoman frontier precisely because northwestern Persia needed a functioning monetary node.