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Abbasi - Nader Afshar - Granted autonomy in Khorasan Type A, Mashhad mint
| Issuer | Iran |
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| Year | 1731-1736 |
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| Value | 4 Shahi |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents the Shia kalima and the names of the Twelve Imams arranged in multiple lines of Nasta'liq calligraphy filling the entire field, framed by a dotted inner border and a marginal legend encircling the periphery. The central inscription opens with the shahada 'La ilaha illa Allah, Muhammad rasul Allah, Ali wali Allah,' followed by the sequential enumeration of the twelve Imams: Ali, Hasan, Husayn, Ali, Muhammad, Ja'far, Musa, Ali, Muhammad, Ali, Hasan, Muhammad. The deeply struck lettering is characteristic of Afsharid hammered coinage from the Mashhad mint, with the legends rendered in bold relief against a flat field. |
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Nader Qoli — not yet the shah he would crown himself in 1736 — governed Khorasan as a military commander under the Safavid Tahmasp II and then Abbas III, effectively controlling the region while maintaining the legal fiction of Safavid suzerainty. Coinage struck at Mashhad during this interregnum period was issued in the name of the reigning Safavid puppet, but Nader's political grip on the mint was absolute. The Mashhad mint held particular strategic weight given the city's position as both a Shia pilgrimage center and a transit point for eastern trade routes.
The Type A designation distinguishes these from later issues struck after Nader's formal accession.