Abbasi - Karim Khan Zand Type C, Isfahan

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.