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Abbasi - Karim Khan Zand Type C, Isfahan
| Issuer | Zand Dynasty |
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| Year | 1760-1767 |
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| Weight | 4.6 g |
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| Obverse script | Arabic (Persian) |
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| Reverse lettering | یا کریم ضرب دارالامانا صفهان ۱۱۷۸ (Translation: ya Karim Struck in Isfahan 1178) |
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Karim Khan Zand never took the title of Shah, governing instead as Vakil al-Ra'aya — regent of the subjects — a deliberately populist rejection of royal pretension unusual in Iranian political history. His Isfahan-struck abbasis of this period reflect a functional, stable monetary administration during what was otherwise a chaotic interregnum following the collapse of the Afsharid dynasty. Isfahan had been the Safavid imperial mint for over a century; Karim Khan's use of it carried deliberate legitimizing weight without requiring him to claim dynastic succession.