| Description de l’avers |
Two fish depicted in the Pisces configuration, arranged head-to-tail in opposing directions within the central field, rendered in low relief in a bold, simplified folk art style. The fish are enclosed within a beaded inner border that follows the round flan. The design draws on a longstanding talismanic tradition in Iranian civic coinage, where the Pisces motif served as the emblem of the city of Khoy. The surfaces show typical characteristics of hammered copper coinage, with slight irregularity in the strike. |
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| Description du revers |
Three lines of Persian script in Nasta'liq style occupying the central field, reading the mint and date formula. The legend is set within a beaded inner border consistent with the obverse, with the text arranged in horizontal registers across the flan. The inscription names the denomination, the mint city of Khoy, and the AH date 1193, conforming to the standard anonymous falus format of Iranian municipal coinage of the period. |
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Khoy, situated in the northwestern corner of Iran near the Ottoman frontier, operated as a semi-autonomous issuing authority for copper coinage during the late Zand or early Qajar transitional period — the precise political moment this falus falls into remains debated among specialists. Anonymous municipal copper of this type circulated strictly at the local level, its acceptance rarely extending beyond the immediate region. Album 3243 covers a loose confederation of city issues that share little beyond their anonymity and their copper fabric.