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Falus - Abbas III Safavi Qazvin mint
| Issuer | Safavid Dynasty |
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| Year | 1735 |
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| Reference(s) | Zeno cat#5435, Album Islamic#3254 |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Mintage | 1147 (1735) |
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Abbas III was installed as shah in 1732 at roughly eight years old, a puppet of the Afsharid warlord Nader Khan, who deposed him in 1736 and proclaimed himself Nader Shah — ending the Safavid dynasty entirely. This falus, struck at Qazvin in the penultimate or final year of Safavid rule, was minted under a regime that had already lost real power. Qazvin had served as a Safavid capital under Tahmasp I before Isfahan took that role, giving the mint a long institutional history that outlasted the dynasty's political coherence by decades.